Yes. Great, in fact. Why get someone like Neil deGrasse Tyson to help me get to and understand space when Richard "TARDIS Pockets" Branson can just throw money around the black vacuum?
Truth is, its been dead since December 19th, 1972. Obama just happens to be the guy who made it obvious to everyone else. I've got a feeling the private space efforts are quickly going to discover they really need a better business plan than: 1. Build rockets 2. 3. Profit! Which is really about all they've got at the moment. The tourism angle isn't going to be enough to carry the load alone.
Odd that the ONLY thing that President Barack Hussein Obama thinks should be privatized is the manned space program. And what people call a "privatized space program" is more like a glorified tourist business than a real space program.
What Tuckerfan said. Once the Reds were solidly out the Space Race, none of our administrations have given two fucks if we ever got off this rock again. Still better than what we've got now, though.
[wyt=Here's what NASA or whoever should actually be doing]F9kaA1jNbBc[/wyt] I the meantime Elon Musk et al are doing a nice job.
