<div dir="ltr">"I've been doing a few interviews since the loss of the SpaceX Dragon on
its way to the Space Station. Each one very quickly questions the
viability of what they call commercial space in light of the failure. I
tell them space is hard, this is what happens early in a program with
new technology. It is better now than later in terms of that first and
all important cautionary failure any such quest needs. And then I tell
them more damage was done to the commercial space flight industry by
Congress gutting the budget for humans to ISS flights than by this
disaster. While this was bad, what they did on the Hill is far more
insidious and damaging to the nation. After all, the gang at SpaceX can
find and fix their malfunction issue using logic and technology. In the
end the system will be better, the team, now scarred once will be wiser,
and the rockets will fly again."<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rick-tumlinson/spacex-fall-down-get-back_b_7692328.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rick-tumlinson/spacex-fall-down-get-back_b_7692328.html</a><br></div>