SPACE RED TAPE: Is This NASA Document Saving or Killing Manned Private Spaceflight? “NASA, which wants to send its astronauts aboard privately built spacecraft, recently released the first draft of a document detailing how it would ensure those ships are safe. The contract is a tome of legalese, but buried inside the hundreds of pages are provisions that have some private space companies worried that NASA’s oversight could slow them down.”

For the past several decades, NASA has generally been better at killing things off than boosting them . . .