Like most of you, I spent the weekend reading the full, 157-page text of the final report on the future of space exploration that NASA's Review of U.S. Human Spaceflight Plans Committee released last week. Having done so, I'm sure we share the same disappointments: No manned launch until 2017, Ares rocket underpowered, Orion capsule too big, trajectory of entire current U.S. program "unstable" due to lack of funding from congress, etc. The biggest problem, though, is that NASA doesn't seem to have a clue about what is so clearly the future of space exploration: flying laser hockey bears.