[quote]Elon Musk's SpaceX has revealed its first manned spacecraft at a live launch event in California. The Dragon V2 is capable of carrying seven astronauts for several days to and from the International Space Station, docking automatically with the station, and landing gently "almost anywhere on Earth" using its propulsion system.[/quote] The feds may have crippled NASA, but it looks like the private industry, headed by the somewhat insane Elon Musk, is going to fill the gap.