At last: A North American and World leader fit for the 21st Century

The post "The space race in the 21st century" showed how nations were spending mega millions of dollars on space projects to discover what other nations have already discovered, just to "keep up with the Joanses".

While developing countries such as Iran continue to pursue this space race (see: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jDJTHPpLUYb3WUzzphdkkrcO9HPA) it is encouraging that President Obama, the leader of one of the early nations to start the Space Race is demonstrating new, relevant leadership,  recommending privatizing space (see: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jDJTHPpLUYb3WUzzphdkkrcO9HPA).

He wants some of the extra funding in 2011 to be used to incentivise private companies, to help them bring forward a new generation of launch systems to carry humans to and from space.

Privatizing space makes it available to all people regardless of race, colour or creed.