Capitalism In Space

Over at National Review Online today, I have a piece on the current state of play in U.S. human spaceflight. It’s worth noting that, even as Congress continues to keep us dependent on Russian for access to the International Space Station by underfunding the commercial crew program, the Russians just had another launch failure (their fourth in the past couple years), and their program is in disarray. If we lose a crew in the next couple years on a dodgy Russian rocket, we’ll know whom to blame, but people like Kay Bailey Hutchison will be retired.

What a mess.