1 October 1998 - NASA turns 40

“We’re hitting the big four-oh today,” explained NASA’s Strategic Enterprise for Midlife Crisis Coordination, “and we’re feeling a bit shaky. We’re thinking, y’know, Apollo was great, we were great, and today it’s like, Better, Faster, Cheaper, emphasis on the cheaper. Do we still have it? I mean, can we blame it all on Congress or should we scale back to maybe fireworks for patriotic events?”