Space Jobs Program
Mark Wade has an excellent blog discussing things space. His posts are infrequent and always worth the wait. He has been taking NASA, the Administration and Congress to task for the Constellation Program (with its Orion Apollo-esque crew module and Ares I and V shuttle-derived boosters). NASA is busy doing what it does best: running top-heavy over-bureaucratized, political pork programs that procure overpriced hardware designed to inflated and/or unrealistic specifications using contracting terms that essentially guarantee cost overruns.

I'm hoping that the nascent private space industry — typified by Scaled Composites, Virgin Galactic, Bigelow Aerospace, Rocketplace Kistler, Blue Origin and SpaceX — continues to garner successes and interest. With NASA as the only game in town we might never get off of this rock.