Giant Leaps . . .

ASTRONAUTICS & state; AERONAUTICS -- United States; OUTER space -- Exploration; ORGANIZATIONAL change; SPACE probes; MANNED space flight; SPACE vehicles; MUSK, Elon, 1971-

Criticizes the United States space policy. Reference to U.S. President George W. Bush's Vision for Space Exploration; Incapacity of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to manage the space policy due to a lack of organizational change; History of space vehicles; Report that robots and space probes have begun performing the kind of work astronauts were once expected to; Importance of reducing the cost per pound of payload taken into space; Statement that spacecraft, fuel tanks and their boosters must be reusable; Importance of cutting launch costs to Low Earth Orbit; Creation of the SpaceX company by Elon Musk.