“That’s great! That’s SUPER!! When is the first scheduled manned launch?
Oh...right. There isn’t. Private industry will only launch men into space when it is predictibly profitable, advantageous and safe to do so, which it will not be in your lifetime or mine. Until then, man in space is a government thing.”
Very true. And only a govt. can marshall the resouces needed for a space program. The idea that private industry can make a viable space program is crap.
Private industry is built on Return on Investment. Until there is a hope of a tangible return, there will be no private space program. There might eventually be a cottage industry flying millionaires into orbit so that they can join the Two-Hundred-Mile-High Club, but that is hardly a capable Space Program.