They’re Starting To Figure It Out

The mainstream press, that is.

MSNBC has an article about how regulations are more of a barrier than technology for opening up space. They talked to the right people (other than the fact that they didn’t talk to me, of course), and if we can get more articles like this, we may see more progress in getting the FAA and the government in general in synch with the reality needed to open up the frontier. Burt Rutan, prickly a character as he is, is doing a great service to the private space industry, by forcing issues.