Musk: "Commercial Space Will Be The Only Space"

ANN April 1st Special Edition SpaceX founder Elon Musk announced April 1st that a consortium of commercial space companies have closed a deal with the federal government for the outright purchase of NASA. The consortium is led by SpaceX and ULA, which both have operational boosters that are nearly ready to begin carrying humans into orbit. "The Obama administration was thrilled to be shed of the agency, which it saw as nothing more than a cost center," Musk said. "Between the ULA Atlas boosters which are very reliable, and with Falcon 9 nearly ready to begin operations, we just saw this as the right deal at the right time. In very short order, commercial space will be the only space." Other con

Digitally-Recreated Rodney Dangerfield Is The Effort's Spokesman

ANN April 1st Special Edition After a year in which the business aviation community has been under continuous assault by the Obama Administration, the NBAA on April 1st announced its new "No Respect" campaign to promote biz-av.

"OK, folks... ANN did not suddenly lose its mind (though, there ARE moments... oh, never mind). Check the DATE. 04.01.12. It's April FIRST... a/k/a APRIL Fool's Day.

Acronym for "Feeling Appropriately Abashed" ... if you were fooled by any of our April Fools shenanigans. April fool's, everyone. Bwahahahaha!!!!

April Fools Day

April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 274 days remaining until the end of the year. April 1 is most notable in many countries for being April Fools' Day. It is also, of course, the day that ANN goes a little nuts and has more than a little fun with the world of aviation. You werew warned...