hubie writes:
"U.S. House of Representatives's Science, Space and Technology Committee had a meeting to discuss whether NASA should help out the Mars Foundation. The Mars Foundation scrapped their earlier plans to send two humans to Mars, and revised it to do a two-person fly-by. However, they want NASA help. They want a design modification to the Orion spacecraft and they want use of the Space Launch System. If this goes anywhere, it will be interesting how it is proposed that funding get allocated."
(Score: 1) by emg on Tuesday March 04 2014, @06:29PM
"Everyone in the private sector long ago realized that there is no money to be made in space."
Not when you're launching on NASA rockets that cost billions a flight. If SpaceX get a Falcon launch down to a few million, as they're suggesting they should be able to with reusable stages, we'll be well on the way to making good money up there.