WhiteHouse.Gov petition to develop nuclear thermal rockets

I don't think this is a particularly good project right now. We need to focus federal dollars on projects with potential commercial legs, such as tourism and space solar power, and projects with direct benefit to those on the ground such as asteroid defense, Earth and solar observation, materials procession, and bio-medical research on the ISS. We spend plenty of money on really interesting and wonderful but not particularly useful (to the taxpayers on the ground) space projects. Given the federal gov't debts, we should assume NASA will lose quite a bit of funding over the next few years and spend what's left wisely.