Today's NASA YouTube Feature: America needs the space station – NOW

Editor’s note: Picture this: a TV commercial featuring a space station orbiting overhead where people speak Russian and laugh at capitalists back on Earth. How scary – or at least that’s what the McDonnell Douglas public affairs folks wanted everyone else to think back in 1988. Flash forward nearly 20 years. McDac is gone. And the space station with Russians on board? Well, we’re up there with them. And the capitalists who actually use a space station? They speak Russian – and they are still laughing at us back on Earth because we can’t commercialize much (if anything) on the ISS.