I hope they do just that. We don’t have a space program. We are an adjunct of the Russian space program. Maybe we will get back to business if we don’t have the Russians to let us ride on their rockets to their platform.
If it weren’t for cumbersome federal regulations requiring years of costly testing and bureaucratic review, SpaceX could fly people in the Dragon capsule as early as next week - they’d just need to install the seats.
there was alwasy going to be a gap between the shuttle and the next gen rocket and crew cap., between Boing and the commerical companys us can be sending crew to the iss by 2016-2017