4:14 am Endeavour Launch from KSC

     While you were sleeping America, Endeavour launched into the night air across the Indian River from Titusville, Florida. The President visits Tampa and the defeated Republican VP candidate visits Daytona but neither are seen in Titusville in the month of February 2010 for the last night Shuttle launch. No one laments from the National Political Scene, the loss of 6,000 + jobs related to Space Travel at KSC.
     Tourists wrapped in blankets lined the river in Titusville to see the 4:14 AM Space Shuttle launch.  We cheered when Endeavour blasted off and we heard the delayed boom.  Many had been there the day before when the launch was scrubbed.  They came again.  Where was the President, VP, Ex VP etc.?

     No concern is expressed that Florida's elite technical engineering work force is being decimated by lack of Federal funding while the car industry, banking and Wall Street is bailed out.
Before Sputnik, the US had little interest in science. Now post Star Wars, science is being forgotten by the Federal Government.
     In Titusville, Florida when we say: Gentlemen(and Danica Patrick) start your engines, we mean Start Blasting the Space Shuttle off.

     President Obama has time for the Super Bowl and his super politicking with Katie Couric but not one word for the brave crew of Endeavour. So India and China are ahead of us technically. The Japanese destroyed the US Auto industry with better technology(except for a recent recall). What will it take for the US to appreciate anld reward US technical skills again.
     Gentlemen start your engines will only be heard four more times in Titusville, Florida. Then the best and the brightest leave town. Trickle down unemployment will hit Main Street in a week.
     In the heart of Redneck country, we call for federal help. The Dixie symbol was changed on the Florida flag just a few years ago. Do not abandon us like some useless third world country!