[CSM]

Neal Boortz hit the nail on the head with his writing today. He said:

"PRIVATE SPACE FLIGHT

Three years from inception to accomplishment. Thirty million dollars. A private astronaut in sub-orbital space. Do any of you think that the government could have pulled this one off? Do you folks realize what was accomplished yesterday? I'll guarantee that if someone went to NASA and told them to develop a completely new from top to bottom vehicle to send three men into sub-orbital space and return to a landing strip, and to do the whole project for under thirty million .. they couldn't do it.

So ... let me tell you what's next. Before the month is out my guess is that someone is going to propose that private individuals be prohibited from traveling into space. Someone will step forward to close off space exploration to all but government.

Just wait."

It can be found here: http://boortz.com/nuze/index.html

[rhombus]

If space is outlawed only outlaws will have space.

[Old Professer]

I said the same thing two days ago.

[sionnsar]

I'll guarantee that if someone went to NASA and told them to develop a completely new from top to bottom vehicle to send three men into sub-orbital space and return to a landing strip, and to do the whole project for under thirty million .. they couldn't do it.

I'd second that. It's been thirty years since a NASA researcher gloomily told me that NASA had just passed a milestone -- they now had more than one administrator for every scientist.