NASA's New Flight System

This post in response to:
http://scienceblog.com/47029/nasa-selects-seven-firms-to-provide-near-space-flight-services/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+scienceblogrssfeed+%28Science+Blog%29

Because I live in the Clear Lake area of Houston, TX, any positive news about NASA's flight program is a good thing.  Much of the area in which I live is employed by NASA in one way or another and I hate hearing about all of the good people that are being let go because the flight program is no longer being funded by the U.S. government.  I can't say that I support U.S. funding of the flight program, but I am happy that NASA is being able to outsource their future flights through companies located in the U.S.  It will be very interesting to see what happens in the coming years when it comes to U.S. led flights into space!