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July 6, 2010 - 12:03 am - by Rand Simberg
Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate
2010-07-06 15:16:34

I’m glad to see someone write on the theory that Obama’s space policy shows that two wrongs can make a right. In this case, Obama is wrong in his trust in government over the private sector, and wrong to assign space flight to such a low priority (e.g. Bolton’s top three NASA missions). As a result, in the long run it may be the best achievement of his administration.

Remember that in the Robert Heinlein alternate universe, Earth developed manned interstellar flight precisely because it was a private sector operation from the beginning.