Elon Musk, founder of Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of California, made an announcement at the National Press Club yesterday that is (figuratively now, literally in the future) earth shaking.

One of the (minor, given its relative importance) issues before the Congress on the next CR is what to do about the NASA budget. The agency is currently forced to waste a million-and-a-half dollars a day on a program that has been canceled, due to language from 2010 added by Alabama Senator Richard Shelby that enjoins them from shutting down the former Constellation program. In order to stop this, the CR must contain an anomaly rescinding this (something that Congress has failed to add in the past few CRs). In addition, there is a dispute between the House and the Senate on whether or not NASA should be forced to move forward on the space pork otherwise known as the Senate Space Launch System.