Pluto, NASA goofs!

Exotic ices, nitrogen lakes, an atmosphere....sounds like a planet to me.  Most unceremoniously, NASA declared Pluto was no longer going to be considered a planet.  Typical government balderdash! The New Horizons spacecraft, launched when NASA was still a space agency, proves what many of us outside the government already know....Pluto is a planet.  When I was in school, America's space program inspired and fascinated us school kids.  We landed men on the moon, and we all knew Mars was not far behind.

Today...most of us know the U.S. will never land man on Mars (...or a woman).  We spent decades with the shuttle program sending 3rd grade experiments into space.  Do tomato plants grow in space? WHO CARES?!?  The scaling down of the space program was deliberate and intentional.  Can anyone name three achievements of the shuttle missions?  Our generation, our kids, and perhaps their kids will be mired in low expectations.  Perhaps someday, imagination, achievement, and dreams will guide our space program once more.