[Brett66]

It will take more than a rich man's intellectual distraction to get fare-paying passengers into space - and safely back again.

Sounds like sour grapes, he's pretty steamed Bezos didn't write him a blank check.

[StockAyatollah]

Whatever the private sector is able to pull-off in manned space flight, I am sure they will do it without the 100 layers of do-nothing, know-nothing, CYA middle mgmt that NASA has.