That book may be worth a read. I'll keep an eye out for it, thanks Patrick. The current private spaceflight effort as it relates to overall space exploration is directly comparable to personal, ultralight aircraft as they relate to aviation-at-large. A nifty, but small, first step- though hardly capable of making any long-distance, technologically significant contributions in the near term. It's sub-orbital and low-orbit flight on the cheap. Like making a telescope from hardware-store components, while the pro's use Keck. My heart just aches for the men who lost their lives, and their families, but realistically there will be many, many more on this road. Being a pioneer is never easy. On 7/31/07, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote:
On 30 Jul 2007, at 21:39, Chuck Hards wrote:
Privatization of space travel, more specifically, making space travel profitable, is what is needed to accellerate the pace. But again, I don't have much hope for seeing that Lunar Hilton in my lifetime. :o(
Interesting that you should mention the privatization of space as that is the subject of yesterday's MSNBC Cosmic Log:
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/07/30/297452.aspx
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