<font color="yellow">"M&L for NASA, ESA, JAXA, etc. <br /><br />SB&T for Bigelow, SpaceX & SpaceDev, etc."</font><br /><br />Basically, what you're saying Andrew, is that government space agencies can do missions and launches while private enterprise can't. Have I got that right? <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /><br /><br />I agree that this particular story is probably best here in SB&T since it concerns technology development, but not because it is a private business doing it. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="3" color="#ff9900"><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>------------------------------------------------------------------- </em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government."</em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong>Thomas Jefferson</strong></font></p></font> </div>