NASA reacts to SpaceX’s plan to launch rich people into space

As the space industry gradually moves from government-run programs to the commercial sector we knew there would come a day when the first paying customer was launched into space simply because they wanted to do it. Yesterday, SpaceX announced that it plans to do just that starting in 2018, with a pair of unnamed by obviously wealthy passengers who want to see what it's like to slingshot themselves around the Moon in a space capsule. Now, the organization that first sent a man to the surface of E