Not All Of It. Not Yet. But Getting There!

06/15/04 00:00:00    

By Michael Mealling

Financial Times: Study calls for larger private sector role in Nasa:

bq.

“It could be that by 2020, private enterprise could be reaching the Moon, which is about the same as Nasa's timetable,” says Eric Anderson, president of Space Adventures, a space tourism group.

Nasa says it still has an important role to play. “Space tourism will take place, and we need to include the opportunity for the private sector to play a role,” says spokesman Michael Braukus of Nasa. “But that doesn't mean the agency is irrelevant.”

Not all of it is irrelevant. Not yet. But we're getting there.

Isn't it a nice goal to work toward, though?