Too soon for a Challenger Reference??? It was seven years…

Scully: “Why would somebody want to sabotage the Space Shuttle?”

Mulder: “Well, if you were a terrorist, there probably isn’t a more potent symbol of American progress and prosperity, and if you’re an opponent of big science, NASA itself represents a vast money trench that exists outside the crucible and debate of the democratic process, and of course there are those futurists who belive the Space Shuttle is a rusty old bucket that should be mothballed, a dinosaur spacecraft built in the 70s by scientists setting their sights on space in an ever-declining scale.”

Scully: “And we thought we could rest easy with the fall of the Soviet Union.”

Muldur: “Not to mention certain fringe who accuse our government itself of space sabotage. The failure of the Hubble Telescope and the Mars Observer directly connected to a conspiracy to deny us evidence.”

EXCELLENT.