NASA Launches Pre-emptive Strike on the Moon Men

Here is blogger Patrick Baldwin

Mission Accomplished!

This morning NASA lived out the dream of every kid with a bb gun. They shot the Moon with a missile.

While I, like every geek who debated Wookies over Vulcans, think the idea of a Moon Base is very cool. Remember when NASA used to be the smartest guys on the planet? Now NASA seems like they are just picking up the latest comic book and saying, "this might work."
Seriously, it was just a couple years ago they tried to catch a spacecraft with a giant hook on the end of a helicopter.

The same guys that lost the Mars Observer, and when they tried again they used English Standard measurements instead of the Metric system.

I realize public support for NASA isn't what it used to be, and a $17.6 billion budget doesn't help.
But you have to think, things would be drastically different if they had just patented some of the stuff they invented. If you sleep on a Tempur-pedic beds you can thank space exploration. Same for the rubber molding in almost every athletic shoe, and even the bar code system at your grocery store.

Perhaps, if we ran NASA like a business and not like NPR maybe we'd all be able to get more exciting about shooting missiles at the Moon.