Bolden Says Commercial Crew a Tough Sell for NASA Old Guard | SpaceNews.com

By Amy Klamper | SpaceNews.com, Posted 09/28/09

Link: http://www.spacenews.com/venture_space/bolden-says-commercial-crew-tough-sell...

"NASA Administrator Charles Bolden told an audience of space entrepreneurs and U.S. lawmakers he is skeptical of the private sector’s ability to take over manned operations in low Earth orbit, but is hopeful commercial space companies will succeed."  Bolden said the promise of space in our time is the opening of a new frontier to the next generation of space entrepreneurs, researchers, engineers, academicians and service industry workers. “It’s an exciting time to be in the space business,” he said, “Let the competition begin.”  Bolden, of course, is also referring to the competition between what is often called NewSpace and Traditional Space entities.