“SpaceX will pick up the slack”.
While I am a huge fan of SpaceX, and Burt Rattan, and all those guys, and fully believe they are 100% capable of extrordinary things (I watched space ship 1 launch), whatch for the government (especially this administration) to regulate these guys to death.
I fully expect that to happen.
As the government regulates those small start up companies to death the big boys can come in like these.
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1102/08liberty/