RAND SIMBERG: Capitalism in Space: It’s time for a competitive, privatized approach to spaceflight. “Ever since the Obama administration’s rollout of its space policy two and a half years ago, conventional ideological wisdom has been turned on its head. An administration that had seemed eager to increase government involvement in everything from auto companies to health care proposed a more competitive, privatized approach to spaceflight, and people claiming to be conservatives blasted it, demanding that the traditional (and failing) NASA monopoly continue. Jim Muncy, a former aide on space policy to California congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R.), put it cleverly: ‘Democrats don’t think that capitalism works within the atmosphere, and Republicans apparently don’t think it works above it.'”

This is one of the relatively few policy areas where Obama has gotten it right. He deserves the credit.