Planetary Society to Launch 'Solar Sail' Spacecraft

America is currently following in its own mis-steps. The question of is it better to give a man food; or money to buy food; or the knowledge to grow food. HAs been answered a thousand times already, knowledge is the answer! We have answered that question by educating other countries and helping them develope through education.

Currently our government is giving Trillions of dollars to companies that under our democratic system should have failed or reorganized.

Now to the point. This generation has given us nothing, they have become repairmen or working in sales to generate income from what past generations have given them, TV- Radio- Phones, Computers, and Space. Technology from our original desire to go to the moon had created technology that has surpassed creative thinking and free enterprise more then any other time in human history. If American business and entrepeneurs were given these same trillion of dollars and told to go and created a colony on the moon and have us on Mars in ten years, to create a deep flight space vehicle; then we would see people going back to work and unemployement disappearing rapidly.

America is made up of free enterprise and bright minds from people who use great imaginations because it is still ok to dream. We must harness all of this or else where will my grandson go? What can he become but another repairman. But ask him to dream of space and go into space not as dreamer but as someone who has put us there by his deeds his education, because now schools will have changed to a curriculum that will incorporate room for this funded program. Business's will spring up over night if we allow America's private secture to create and share in these new discoveries. America needs a real purpose something we can sink our teeth into something out of the ordinary that has always made us take a big step forward. Our Space Program should become our next battlefield our next cry for victory. All this could do is create more benefits for man, every man women and child from potential discoveries to reach our goal.

It is ok to to help companies in trouble but it is not ok to take away the right of Americans to find an alternative to a solution to end this present economic situation. Create the need for new employment by creating a need for us to shift our education and our employment needs. Create a deep space program one that will have us living on the moon and going to Mars and beyond. This is America, and it is still a country where children lie in bed at night dreaming of the stars and heaven and other worlds. Lets make those dreams come true.

Mike Andrisano of NJ 8:49AM November 10, 2009