RAND SIMBERG ON SPACEX: What Does the Success of the Dragon Mean? America Has Returned To Space. “The dreaded ‘gap’ caused by the shuttle retirement didn’t even last a year, thanks to the foresight of the previous administration and the vision of an entrepreneur. Now it’s up to Congress to fully fund the request for commercial crew to enable the rapid development of even safer and competitive systems.”

Give the Obama Administration some credit for not screwing it up, too.