NASA picks Florida agency to take over shuttle landing strip

Idiotic! To turn over a National asset, which WILL be needed by the Nation again and shortly, to a corruption ridden State is certifiably Idiotic!

I realize that the Obama Admin is badly handcuffed by the teawhackadoos, but, sometimes, I wonder whether he is really any smarter than Bush43.

We should never have retired the shuttle program, we should have expanded it, added a few more shuttles and upgraded them to handle more diverse missions. And to pay Russia to fly our astronauts and cargo should have been seen as unacceptable. We have lost our only manned spacecraft (not counting the one being tested by the military) and our dreams of traveling to distant worlds has our collective spirits crushed. Now, as if to prove my point that we have no alternatives, they are selling off the remaining shuttle engines, all the boosters are going back to pushing nukes and the land once used by the shuttle is idle. The only thing taking off or landing are birds! They could at the very least return the land to its original state, creating some new habitats for wildlife.