Seeing the Chinese Space Program cooperating with the Russians and then now the Russians cooperating with the European Space Agency makes me think about a Global Space Agency. Why not? We our going to be recovering economically from the Bush Administration for quite a while and our Space Programs will probably slowly die due to lack of funding one by one as other national needs arise. Why not just make this a global effort now, while we have so much to offer. What better goal to help unite and demystify relations between nations than to work together to explore space.