Jeff Foust has a round up of the scant commentary on the 10th anniversary of Bush’s VSE announcement, including a link to my USA Today piece.
And no, the problem with Constellation was not that it was underfunded. It simply cost more than the planned budgets. Mike hoped that once it was a fait accompli, he’d just get the extra money. It didn’t work out that well.
[Update in the afternoon]
I haven’t read it in detail, but Stephen C. Smith has a lengthy history.
Section III, titled “Building a Robust Space Industry,” argued for the creation of what we know today as NewSpace. – Stephen C. Smith
No Steve, that’s what you know as NewSpace. The rest of us call that “commercial space” or simply “the space industry”.
NewSpace is people working to open the space frontier to human settlement through economic development.