... with the US aerospace and launch industry, let me just say that you're fooling yourself if this is going to in anyway increase competition and/or inspire Darwinism. The American aerospace industry (at least on the top level) is a far cry from anything remotely resembling that. This move will do nothing to assist the aerospace industry at the level where true competition exists at. Of course, I also believe that it would do the aerospace industry a great boon if we took to heart Russian pragmaticism. The Russians don't have the greatest safety record, but their frontiersman attitude of improvising and practicality is something NASA, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, JPL, etc. should take note of. To give an example, the US spent on upwards of a million dollars researching, designing, and then fabricating a writing tool that could write in space, upside down, under water, etc. Know how much the Russians spent? $0.99 They used pencils.