He (NASA Administrator Charles Bolden) later added, "Space travel is complex, but this choice is simple: Do we invest in ourselves — in our businesses, our ingenuity, our people — or do we choose instead to send our tax-dollars to Russia?"

This is really it. We have companies here with the capabilities needed to get to the ISS.

But the cool thing is, WHEN approved this will be the real beginning of manned space travel. People will look back and say the move to privatized space travel was the greatest thing humanity has ever done for themselves short of standing upright. Everything before was just dipping our toes in the water. This is a big deal.

Thank you for this snap.