"I don't want to live in the last days of a declining once-great society. I want to live in the first days of the next great human adventure," says Jeff Greason, founder of XCOR Aerospace in Mojave. "Space is a frontier that can occupy humanity for thousands of years to come, and I am very excited where we are at the threshold where we can choose to make that happen."
I think it is a conflict of interest that Greason was on Obama's committee to cancel the Constellation program, and is now advocating a plan supporting his company.
More than a little crony capitalism going on with the “commercial” space supporters of Zero’s space “plan.”
SFF has like most all other space enthusiast/lobbyist groups have been dominated by Democrat/liberals, who refuse to see that their political goals are in direct conflict with their stated space commercialism/development goals. When confronted about this, they revert to the nastiness found so often in the hypocritical left - an intolerance for opposition, especially if it exposes their lies.
That said, Greason and XCOR are one of the few exceptions that actually are using commercial funding to develop commercially viable products and services without taking government contracts*.
* This could have changed recently, but to my personal knowledge of the XCOR key personnel, they are rather libertarian in their political views and practices.