Richie! YOU? Quoting a *British* newspaper?

There are plenty of fair to slightly-biased arguments in that article.

The only real misleading one is #10 (about NASA and the Constellation program). The assumption you get from that is that Constellation was funded and a good program. The administration is going full-bore on exploiting the genius of some of our commercial space partners since guys like Elon Musk seem to be able to do what NASA used to do for a tenth the price and in FAR less time.