Space exploration is stuck.

[Swampy]

We haven't been able to get very far, and the main reason is that it's very expensive to fight that gravity well that is our planet. I think that, before the space age can truly dawn, we must have a paradigm shift like anti-gravity, which would allow us to get off the planet cheaply and easily.

[Swampy]

A British businessman did establish a foundation to try to figure a way around gravity, but that was a fruitless task, though the foundation did learn more about the phenomenon.

[Sir John]

The Newton Foundation?