WELL, HE’S RIGHT:

Kids actually understand robotics in an amazing way. If NASA said they were going to land monster robots on Mars and crash them into each other we would have a huge pool of kids who were interested in science and engineering.

That’s Obama advisor Steve Robinson, quoted in the (print only) May 19 Space News. The next President should bring in Conn Iggulden, along with Andrea Buchanan and Miriam Peskowitz as consultants.