If I had a time machine and I could go back in time and possess and control the President of my choice – it would have to be President Nixon. I would go back before Watergate was even planned. (The Nixon Administration could have won hands down without it.)

Then I would have used the bully pulpit of the President to strong arm the congress like President Reagan use to do. And go to the American people too in order to sell them on the idea of keeping those giant Saturn V rockets blasting off every other month. I would have keep those assembly lines going and the employment of those skilled engineers and space advocates on contract for years and years.

Built both a Moon and a Mars base and for less money than the ISS and shuttle program.

Just think Folks, in an alternate universe you would be working for me building Saturn V’s instead of the Shuttle program. How I wish that were true.