We're just as well without it. Absent accountability via serious attention from higher-ups or the constituents themselves, bureaucracies tend to devolve into inefficient, unproductive jobs programs, and NASA is no exception: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=770268" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=770268</a><p>The future of space travel will come from organizations with the accountability to properly motivate them to succeed.  I, for one, welcome a future of private space flight.