David Spain wrote:
Maybe NASA will be re-directed to the COTS approach and contract
launch services with a man-rated the Dragon capsule?

It certainly does make a major opening for the COTS approach to things.


Would Obama consider spining off ISS services to a quasi-public
corporation ala Amtrak and move NASA over to being more like
its NACA predecessor?

It would be great if that could happen, but NASA seems so dysfunctional
at the moment that it might be better to just kill it and start over
with something new.
About the only part of it that still does competent work is JPL and its
unmanned space probes. The rest of it is a bloated and unfocused mess
that seems primarily designed to ship tax dollars to as many
congressional districts, universities, and aerospace companies as
possible so they can develop technologies that aren't really needed at
the moment for any promulgated aerospace mission.

Pat