The problem is the best contractor private companies will not get funded but libs to just steal the money.
Richard Branson is kind of a jerk but what he is doing or really what Rutan is doing is good. Put Rutan in charge of NASA.
If Rutan was running NASA we could be in deep space in a deacde with those Star Trek hippies looking for Eden and Tribbles.
You probably already know this ... when Rutan mentions NASA in an interview he pronounces it “Nay-Say”.
It's part of the persona of a visionary...Edison was a nightmare to deal with, as was Henry Ford. And Howard Hughes was simply bizarre.
"I put myself in the (Those who fear expansion of Government control) group, and do not hide the fact that I have a clear bias on [ Anthropogenic global warming (AGW)]. My bias is based on fear of Government expansion and the observation of AGW data presentation fraud - not based on financial or any other personal benefit. I merely have found that the closer you look at the data and alarmists’ presentations, the more fraud you find and the less you think there is an AGW problem... For decades, as a professional experimental test engineer, I have analyzed experimental data and watched others massage and present data. I became a cynic; My conclusion – “if someone is aggressively selling a technical product who’s [sic] merits are dependant [sic] on complex experimental data, he is likely lying”. That is true whether the product is an airplane or a Carbon Credit."