Gwynne Shotwell COO of SpaceX talks about STEM education and building space hardware in her TED talk. She points out that the US is slipping in education, innovation, and manufacturing. My T=0 for the start of our slide or failure to keep up with exponential innovation, is the cancellation of the Super Collider. I wish someone would provide some insight into why we don't produce stuff on the "Moon Landing" scale any more.