There needs to be COMPETITION between entrepreneurial ventures, NOT merely between corrupt contractors like Boeing.
For prices to come down, there needs to be COMPETITION between entrepreneurial ventures, NOT merely between corrupt contractors like Boeing. Do you think that the space tourism industry wouldn't take off [pun not intended] if the cost of launching humans into space came down?
Pro-entrepreneurial reforms could empower genuine entrepreneurs:
http://www.spaceprojects.com/reforms
NASA has a larger budget than all the rest of the world's civilian space agencies COMBINED:
HTTP://www.spaceprojects.com/Chinese-space-program
and NASA should take the lead on offering adequate competitive prizes (like Congress allows and like DARPA already does):
http://www.spaceprojects.com/prizes