[TheForge] OT - Privately funded manned space flight.

[Andy Vida]

Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer wrote:
> 
> The brains behind it, Burt Rutan has done a bunch of extraodinary stuff
> over the years. He was a local for some years but  i never got to meet him.
> He's the kind of guy the govt should give near unlimited funds and then
> get out of the way.
> It'd pay off big time.

	That's the last thing they want.  It's all about control
	and perceptions of control.

	-Andy