I really hope they don't.

That page loaded in a few seconds for me. Most pages take much longer but do not have much more information or functionality.

This page is a press release. It serves a special purpose. Other parts of the NASA website are less plain.

Really? I think somehow the blandness of its site echoes its historical context - it seems like a website built at the inception of websites, just how I associate NASA and space exploration. To each his own.

Despite the arguments in past years that funding NASA and space programming is a waste of government and private dollars, sure to have nothing other than futile and novelty implications, I have always been in favor of it. There is something about it, as I see it, that represents possibility, limitless thinking, and optimism. If we scrap the funding, it seems to me a sort of surrender to cynicism, insularity, and mediocrity.