Good Article By Gene Kranz
To call the nation’s attention to this crisis in space, the leaders of nearly two dozen of America’s top high-tech and aerospace companies have put their differences and competitive instincts aside. They have signed a joint challenge to Congress to put partisan bickering aside for the nation’s greater good — to return U.S. space access to where it belongs: in the hands of our nation’s own space workers, not those of foreign lands.
http://thehill.com/op-eds/missing-out-on-outer-space-2007-06-12.html