So they are a little behind the times.
However...lets see how fast they can catch up. And lets hope we can still excell in space before they do. I don't want to see the Red Planet being run by Red Commies.
Check out Scaled Composites and their Project X Candidate. First Space Flight to go this next month I believe from Mojave CA.
http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/index.htm
