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The Obama Administration will propose companies to build, launch and operate spacecraft for NASA and others. But this statement brought numerous controversies to private space agencies or firms.

The White House has said it will be adding $5.9 billion to the overall NASA budget over five years. But John Gedmark, executive director of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation believes most or all will go to commercial space. On the other hand, Mike Gold, corporate at Bigelow Aerospace, believes the government should have privatized astronaut launching decades ago. "It will force the aerospace world to become competitive again and restore us to our days," Gold said.

Howard McCurdy, American University Public Policy professor and space expert said that this is not as radical as it seems. "This is something that NASA has been drifting toward in the last 25 years," he said. Thus, the idea of rising back the making of spaceship takes much testing and study before they jump into commercial space.

"It's not that it is impossible to certify these rockets as safe enough for astronauts but it is a long process that is not spelled out," said former NASA associate administrator Scott Pace, now a space policy professor at George Washington University.

Peter Diamandis, founder of the X Prize Foundation, dismissed safety worries: "We don't fly on U.S. Air Government. We fly on Southwest and Jetblue." On the other hand, Pace cautioned that Clinton era efforts to privatize parts of the National Reconnaissance Organisation, which builds and operated U.S. spy satellites as a failure and that this could be similar. Even Paul Light, New York government professor said, "My general caution is to be careful about what you give away. It's awful experience to get it back."

This hot issue of realizing the making of spaceship presents thorough study and arguments to all concerns as well as no one wants to repeat the Columbia accident in 2003 again. In as much as, whatever the decision of the government and private space firms will evidently be shown in the next story of this news. What we hope that may they come up with the most proper and thorough decisions.