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I wonder how long it'll be until space travel becomes really feasible

Here's one for private enterprise, entreprenuership, and a can-do-don't-need-the-government attitude...give private enterprise some incentives and we'll do it better then NASA anyday of the week.

Don't know, but I'm excited about this.

I've been depressed about the seeming backslide of transportation technology since the grounding of the SST fleet. This project has been a welcome success.

I just wish the plans called for more than just low earth orbit, but hey, you've got to start somewhere.

Don't know, but I'm excited about this.

I've been depressed about the seeming backslide of transportation technology since the grounding of the SST fleet. This project has been a welcome success.

I just wish the plans called for more than just low earth orbit, but hey, you've got to start somewhere.

Why the very thought of mining the moon for it's minerals should be making some companies drooling for the chance to make private extra-solar flight a reality...put up some orbital rest&repair facilities at L1 and voila...ALCOA and US Steel can put up a mining facility there..the riches are untapped...let alone the rings of Saturn...

DP

Do you think the folks at Scaled Composites could have done it with mandatory 35-40 hour work weeks, or with government regulation?

How about if they lived in an anarchist commune where the engineers were compelled to "work the land" for some portion of their time, and where some council decided their fuel would be better used for power generation for the needy?

This is pretty neat. Score one for capitalism and private enterprise...

Here's one for private enterprise, entreprenuership, and a can-do-don't-need-the-government attitude...give private enterprise some incentives and we'll do it better then NASA anyday of the week.

At least taxpayers' money isn't being wasted because the entrepreneur's wasting his own.