An American Dream

-An American "dream catcher" busted last Friday, as the last of the Space Shuttles hitched a ride atop a 747 Transporter to LAX,  perhaps the same transporter plane that delivered it from California fab/ assembly shops to Cape Canaveral, several decades earlier..  Eventually it will be moved by trailer/tractor to be an perimeter exhibit museum in LA.  Sad that such an "endeavor", doesn't have a follow up program, except for pp's abstract thoughts landing on a comet???.
-The future of space travel will be in retro blasted back to the 1960s.  Without NASA the civilian contractor coups don't have the resources both human/ material /equipment to move the space program forward or is there something to take it's place?.
-Just last Friday out of the Apples' California shops, really out of Chinese shops, the I-Phone 5 was born.  Millions of people stood in line for hours to buy one of these wonders, some laying down their  last unemployment checks at the register.  Only 5M or so,  got their Christmas present early, others are on back order.  By time the back order are filled,  I-Phone 6 will be released.  That's continuity,  that's  lacking in the space program.  But out the space program, computer technology might not come along until much later later? Gosh,what is the end product of the I-Phone "X", I-Pad "X" I -whatever?  Except words and data captured on a tiny screen all marked up with finger prints right now.  I am just jealous those gadgets were not around 70 some years ago, I might not need a bunker to report from?  
-In the future a chip or a bank of chips will be embedded at birth,  in your brain with taps coming out of your neck for uploading your brain,  a  Dr. Frankenstein prediction..
-Usually in past centuries, new inventions were a result of warfare spin off,.  NASA was a peace driven "endeavor".
-One more thing, some analysts believe the I-Phone-5 could by years' end create a 0.5% increase to our GDP.  That speaks volumes on the condition of our economy now doesn't it. Mr. President?