What Will Tomorrow (Today?) Bring: Private Spaceflight

Conservative gut-check. Can you stick to your conservative, limited-government guns, even for the "cool" stuff? Apparently Dick Shelby goes all bedwetty at the prospect:

"The president's proposed NASA budget begins the death march for the future of U.S. human space flight," said Sen. Richard Shelby (R., Ala.). - WSJ.com 2/1/2010

Maybe Dick should read January's Popular Science cover story, "Who needs NASA? This Year Civilian Space Indusrty Finally Takes Off."