They spoke of the Space Station, possibly more landings on the Moon and the usual carrot to try to get funding - the manned mission to Mars. There was also discussion of NASA being short of funding - which is nothing new for any agency that relies on money coming from the government.

But all in all, the 'What's Next in Space' broadcast was a nice sanitized piece of fluff that told us absolutely nothing new.

NASA is supposed to be the 'National Aeronautics And Space Administration'. That means that they are pretty well the only organization on the planet that are the official spokespeople about what is 'Out There'.

However, they don't really tell us anything. NASA has put men on the moon, they are responsible for putting up satellites for business and communications, they are responsible for the space station, gathering information about Mars but they present all of the information to us after it has been so thoroughly chopped, diced, and pureed that it has the consistency of mushy pabulum.

NASA refuses to deal with any of the issues dealing with UFOs or other intelligent life in the universe to the degree that they actively suppress and in some situations lie to us about what is out there.

Take the Mars missions.

We have the whole Cydonia region, the Face on Mars and even people like Arthur C. Clarke talking about the discovery of life forms on Mars and that we should be examining them more closely, and what does NASA do? They trot out their pet spokespeople to tell us that we shouldn't believe our eyes and there is nothing really there.

The problem is that when somebody speaks up and points out something that NASA hasn't bothered to tell us about, that person is branded as being some kind of 'saucer-head' and NASA trots out the official spokes-puppy - like James Oberg - oh, sorry, that's supposed to be 'Spokesperson', isn't it - to tell us stories that have no bearing on the real issues..... And we're supposed to take that as Gospel, go away and be quiet.

The truth of the matter is that NASA hides more from us than they ever tell us about and there is nothing short of a world-wide event that will change that.....

But that's just my take on it!