Newspace/Private Space

Big news here: NASA has awarded resupply contracts for the ISS to SpaceX and Orbital Sciences, both newspace startups which have been working towards private space flight. Important to note is that the contract did not go to Lockheed Martin or Boeing, it went to the little guys. Lets hope that this is a step towards NASA becoming a customer of "regular" spaceflight, and a pioneer where pioneering is needed.