"...lack of materials."

Not entirely:

http://space4peace.blogspot.com/2006/03/whitey-on-moon.html

As a tax-paying college student, let me the first to say the Mr. Gagnon doesn't speak for me. I don't care about converting the military-industrial-complex, or any other boogey-man of the week that Mr. Gagnon talks about.

Considering that my parent's investment portfolios most likely have an aerospace corporation or two, I'm ALL for the 3V1L!!!1oneshiftone!! aerospace CORPORATIONS profiting. If anything, they aren't profiting enough! Those profits make their way into my college tuition.

Long-Life, and Good Health to All the Politicians that Vote for Military Spending Bills.

:)

Put that in you pipe and Smoke it, Mr. Gagnon.

Ahh, but see, he posted that steaming pile *after* I had already posted the above.

Thanks for the tip -- it'll go in next week's Pillory.