Well, I for one enjoy being able to fly in airplanes. I'm glad nobody back in the day decided that flight wasn't something most Americans should be able to do.
On the related topic, people did wonder if Rush was the right person to be leading this project and numerous people raised governmental complaints. However, mostly due to staffing issues within the government they weren't handled in any appropriate amount of time and any entity with the ability to stop him didn't.
But it didn't, so... shrugs.