[weikel]

They aren't allowed too( at least from what I heard on the history channel) but they are in Russia LOL( Russia has begun privatizing its space program).

[Constantine XIII]

geez. If things keep on going the way they are, in a hundred years Russian Freepinskis will be sneering at "those socialist American swine." }:o{)_

sigh...

IDEA! Anybody want to start a petition to privatize the U.S. space program?

[altair]

That is correct. NASA has claimed a monopoly on transport to Earth orbit with the cooperation of the US Department of Transportation. It is long since time NASA should be defunded and corporations allowed to take over.