My Fox column is up, which has a longer discussion of today’s Senate hearings.

There’s a problem with one of the paragraphs toward the end, which will hopefully be fixed tomorrow. It should read:

They were next asked what they thought were the implications of the recent Chinese manned space launch. The responses were predictable. Dr. Huntress, ever the science bureaucrat, saw it as an opportunity for international cooperation, Dr. Zubrin as an opportunity for international competition, and Mr. Tumlinson had a response similar to mine–that the proper response to the Chinese’ socialist space program was not our own socialist space program, but rather, unlike the last time we had a space race, a free-enterprise one.