Given that most of Dr. Logsdon’s career was spent as a tenured member of a university faculty, however, the rest of my observation stands. Whether at public or private institutions, university faculty are the U.S. demographic group seemingly most inclined to sneer at “rich people” while being largely ignorant of their origins or accomplishments. Having spent his entire career at an elite school, it is even perhaps understandable that Dr. Logsdon has such a low opinion of “rich people” as the vast majority of such he has likely had occasion to personally encounter would likely have been the entitled and not necessarily very bright “legacies” of smarter parents or grandparents who rose to wealth from modest origins in prior generations. Even allowing for Dr. Logsdon’s cloistered professional life, however, it would seem incumbent upon him to be more aware of what is going on currently in the space field, rather than assuming that historically important players – about which I am sure Dr. Logsdon is well-informed – are the only ones that matter when essaying to pontificate on matters of current space policy.