A
Okay, Howard, what do you think of our space budget and should we go ahead and, and keep exploring, or should we call a halt to it, is it doing any good?
B
I think that the space program has done a lot of good for the country. Now I think what, we made a major wrong turn when we went into the, uh, to the current generation of space craft, the reusable ones, like they are now --
A
Uh-huh.
B
-- because they have not proven as reliable as they should have, and I think some of the earlier approaches were much more, uh, much better in many ways. However, uh, you know, we've gained an awful lot from the space program, all the way from remote monitoring to teflon to, uh, some new space age materials, plastics and all that. So I think it's been a good investment. Uh, somebody was telling me the return was about twenty-five or thirty dollars for every dollar spent --
A
Oh, really.
B
-- which is amazing for any governmental financed --