I’m excited to see competition heating up in the provision of private orbital capabilities.  A healthy commercial market should open up new ways to exploit the technology and opportunity, such as tourism.  It will also allow national and international space agencies to start building the knowledge to tackle the bigger challenges of getting people back to the Moon and then out to the planets and beyond.

Details of Boeings latest move here: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/193171/20110805/spacex-boeing-private-space-race-nasa-atlas-v-rocket.htm

James