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Wednesday, 23 May 2012

A question

Posted on 09:51 by hony
If the U.S. government is paying SpaceX $400 million for two ISS supply missions, and SpaceX has no other non-government clients...how can we call this the first private space mission? Space travel appears to be about as privatized as mail delivery.


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