On Saturday, April 26, 2014 10:40:11 PM UTC-4, wrote:
"Elon Musk, CEO and founder of the upstart commercial launch venture SpaceX,

announced at a press conference today, Friday, April 25, that SpaceX is filing

suit against the Federal Government to protest and break the US Air Force's

awarding of lucrative launch contracts for high priority national security

satellites to a sole rocket provider - United Launch Alliance (ULA) - on a non

competitive basis.



The gloves are officially off in the intensely mounting duel over multibillion

dollar Air Force military launch contracts between SpaceX and ULA."



See:



http://www.universetoday.com/111535/...unch-monopoly/

Good! congress must realize spending public money should be more than a gift to the politically connected