FYI:

There was a segment on NPR's "All Things Considered" tonight covering NASA's plans to start using private companies to launch cargo into space. There were a couple of excerpts from Michael Griffin's talk to the House Science Committee and a brief interview with Elon Musk of SpaceX.

You can listen to it here.

Here's another NPR pointer - Science Friday's second hour today was devoted to a discussion of the future of the US Space program. I missed the first 20 minutes or so, but a broad range of topics were covered, mainly relating to manned spaceflight. The guests were:

Tom Jones
Former NASA Astronaut

Elon Musk
Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX)

Rick Tumlinson
Co-Founder
Space Frontier Foundation

George Whitesides
Executive Director
National Space Society

Audio should be available for download later today.