are visionaries about but bypassing nasa, does that rattle washington? bus they say nasa is the way we do this stuff. well, nasa, of course, is controlled by congress, and the president so that s the way we have done it in the past. although obama kept saying that, let s go commercial, and it s like anything else, instead of having a government airplane, we would have a private airplane. sounds like a dream to me. when we last spoke, person-to-person, putting this space special together you lamented the fact we have given up something we did ourselves, you proved in apollo 13, took what looked like certain disaster and made an achievement out another of that. i didn t know at the time how grim you put your survival chance. now we re hitching rides with the russians. the russians coming back, threatening us if we keep up