A Big Future for Commercial Spaceflight
Department:
Privatizing Spaceflight
Teaser:
Commercial spaceflight has made fantastic progress in the last ten years. The industry looks to have a great future, but major hurdles remain.
Source:
SPACE.com Download time: Dec 31 2009 8:16 AM ET
It's been a wild and crazy ride in space since the first decade of the 21st century began, but as it nears its close the realm of commercial space travel has taken one giant leap into reality. Now, commercial space is on a growth-curve, with a whirlwind of large and small companies ready to offer a variety of skills.
There is growing recognition of this fact, evidenced by the recent Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee – a report that spotlighted the commercial space industry, advising NASA to encourage and use more commercial space services to support future human space missions.
Even so, the coming year is shaping up like a space-based game of "Truth or Dare".…
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