Taxi!

NASA have announced that they will farm out the ferrying of astronauts to the International Space Habitrail to two private companies: Boeing and SpaceX. This is good news, as it gets NASA out of the business of crashing driving space buses and gets them re-focused on exploration. It's also another small step toward the industrialization of space, which holds the promise of creating an economic "space boom" while simultaneously sending lefties and environuts into cardiac arrest. Win-win, as they say.

On a side note, I find it extraordinarily annoying that New Scientist writes their articles in a bullet point question-and-answer format. It's like reading the syllabus for one of those idiotic seminars your company makes you attend periodically in order to test the flexibility of your sanity.