Private space travel: A new era begins?

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On Saturday, a company called SpaceX is scheduled to launch the first private mission to the International Space Station, demonstrating a freight-carrying capability NASA gave up when it retired its fleet of space shuttles in July.

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[faethor]

The future has been delayed by a few days. Good luck SpaceX!

My friend who worked at Blue Origin moved to a new company this year. Not doing Commerical Space any more. Boo!

 

[cecilia]

as long as commercial space activities put safety first and profit second it should do ok

because if they don't they can just kiss the whole thing goodbye

 

[robert l. bentham]

on one of the news channels they were talking about how one of the differences between private sector space programs and nasa is that this would've set nasa back a month. private sector can replace rocket right on the pad... so i naturally thought of a nascar pit style crew showing up with all these rocket parts... lol