Robin Snelson reports on the “losers” of the X-Prize competition. It’s a good survey of what’s going on in the suborbital world right now, and some of them could still end up being winners.

Also at today’s issue of The Space Review, Taylor Dinerman wonders whether NASA will renege on its launch deal with the Air Force (my money’s on “yes”). I think the piece is mistitled. The question isn’t whether NASA can keep up its end of the deal, but whether it will.

Also, Jeff Foust has a movie review from the premiere of Tom Hanks’ Magnificent Desolation.