captainperl

> is like saying ”and they also don’t have space shuttle parking!!”

Thanks, that's the funniest thing I read today!

You can pay with blocks of govt cheese though:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_cheese

FYI: the "Star Wars" laser missile defense system was not entirely a failure.

There were 2 parts to SDI:

1) space-based rocket-based ABM, which worked well. You can watch the SDI video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFGNo9fbf8o

2) laser missile interception, which did not work at the time.

However, with recent improvements in fiber optic transmission efficiency, this works on ships today.

The Russians have an ABM ring around Moscow based on ABM rockets.

Both Reagan and the Russian leadership did not accept the MAD doctrine, hence the above defense programs.