Obama administration to contract out rides to orbit for NASA astronauts

Apparently the Obama administration is going to plan to contract out to private companies in order to get NASA astronauts to Low Earth Orbit. There is a story on it here, and Rand Simberg of Transterrestrial Musings has comments on the commenters here.

Who knows how this will actually work; however, it has the potential to be very good to build up a more robust private sector in space transportation.