[JRandomFreeper]

Look for the MSM to make a big deal of this while our shuttles are now museum pieces.

North American/Rockwell was the prime contractor for the shuttle.

Where were they in funding, designing, operating, and making history today? On the sidelines, because it wasn't big-gov cost plus contract.

I'm glad the old way of doing things is going away. It had it's place, and we stand on the shoulders of giants, but big, ancient aerospace companies can't deal with today's world.

/johnny

[kabar]

The reality is that these companies will be heavily subsidized by the government. It is just more crony capitalism. Now Obama and the Dems will fund their buddies just like they are doing with the Green Energy subsidies. And let's see how many of these jobs migrate overseas.

The mom and pop space businesses will not be any great saviour to what used to be our preeminent position in space. There are enormous national security issues involved. The Chinese are not going to privatize their efforts.

We will see if SpaceX goes the way of Tesla Motors.