[theseatoms]

Oh wow. That's disappointing.

[ceejayoz]

Why is that disappointing?

NASA today exists, in part, to do exactly that, and has benefitted tremendously from their SpaceX partnership.

[theseatoms]

Just thought SpaceX had other revenue sources, I guess.

[ceejayoz]

They do?

http://www.spacex.com/missions

About half the missions on there are non-US government flights.