the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which is wary of any program that threatens the shuttle's future. Partly because of such bu- reaucratic indifference, Congress cut the NASP's 1990 budget from $427 million to $254 million, pushing back the first sched- uled flight test from 1994 to 1997. Keyworth and Abell worry that the NASP will be killed. "Only when travel into orbit ceases to be a newsworthy event," they conclude, "can we claim to have truly en- tered...