no politics please... a budget of some sort might be an idea for career mode...or maybe a timer which shows how long it will take to get the next batch of booster rockets... this could be accelerated by recovering empty boosters, or how about public display flights, e.g. land at a specific location, have your craft light up during reentry over a city (if there ever will be some), have a space craft in orbit for a specific period of time (space lab etc.), assign astronauts to research something (stupidity would be a factor here^^) etc. etc.