Privatize NASA?

Science is fun:

So when the X-prize is won - almost certainly later this year - it will demonstrate that the technology needed to get into space is no longer the preserve of big-budget governmental projects, but is within the grasp of private companies with the right expertise and finances. (#)

Follow-up story here. Perhaps the United States should consider privatizing NASA soon, since it has proven itself to be more costly and less efficient than most other government-enterprises in the history of mankind - excluding maybe the European welfare- and pension-system.