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Paul Spudis is a Republican, a conservative, and a generally all-around great guy. And Musk is only an advocate of Obama because he hasn't used the FAA to shut down the skies, as he could have (under the terms of the Outer Space Treaty of 1967), when he crushed the Constellation brand while really only halting development of the Altair lander.

the heavily subsidized commercial space programs were Republican ideas not identified with Bush, whom Obama hates nearly as much as he does the memory of Churchill.

NASA is being run like all the administration's other toys that Congress created and spinelessly handed over the the executive branch in the 20th century.