Here's a trick: if you click the direct link to the post, you can reply there without any cutoffs :D<p>And hey, I agree. If Team USA is building orbital platforms and doing asteroid surveys by then, then I will be utterly delighted.<p>If, however, because of our lack of long-term vision and misplaced priorities, the space exploration arena comes to be utterly dominated by India, Russia, China, the EU and Japan, then I think I will be justified in lamenting the failings of leadership in my own country I perceive today. Well, I'm not even American actually (though I have family who are), but y'know, I feel a sort of inter-westerner kinship ...