Here's an Idea

Australian: Pieces of debris fell off space shuttle Endeavour's external fuel tank as it blasted off from the Kennedy Space Centre yesterday, its sixth bid in recent weeks to reach the International Space Station.

The shuttle accelerated into space faster than the speed of sound, reaching 26,000km/h in less than nine minutes. Eight minutes after launch the shuttle entered orbit 225km above Earth, and moments later it could be seen separating from the fuel tank.

When is enough going to be enough? How many times are we going to launch these stage coaches to see how the same old animals react to being weightless? We're just floating around in circles! Either take all the money and put it towards a Mars (or even Moon) mission or sign Roger Clemens out of retirement to teach Obama how to throw a strike. We have soaring gas prices, rising unemployment, and a ton of foreclosures. At least teach our President to throw a ball like a man and not like a little girl. That'd be a lot more useful than launching Space Shuttle after Space Shuttle without purpose.

Plus then we can listen to Suzyn Waldman again... "Rogah Clemens is in President Obama's bahx, and Rogah Clemens is comin' back. Oh my goodness gracious."