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More and more you hear about
spaceflight taking off year after year. Someone always has some
mission planned to go into space with civilians and not astronauts
and scientist. There are entrepreneurs out there with the sole
intention of taking the space market by storm. Businessmen always
want the next big thing and I don’t know of a more interesting
vacation then spending a little while in space. Just the fact that
its soon becoming a reality that we can begin to capitalize
spaceflight.
The big names such as Boeing have been
relentlessly trying to cut the cost of their Atlas 5 rockets to
prevent being overrun by start up companies with newer more efficient
ideas. One such man by the name of Elon Musk claims he is developing
new ideas to take the industry by storm with cheaper and far more
efficient means. It seems like having some new minds on the subject
besides just the normal would be beneficial to our research in space.
The whole idea behind this is NASA.
They feel like if they can get the ball rolling, they can lower the
cost of getting their stuff and crew to the International Space
Station or ISS. In fact they have spent an awful lot of US taxpayer
money on it. There is a strong possibility that this will work if you
think about it. If companies start competing for the cheaper prices,
it could allow NASA to use their equipment for things that are new to
science. If taxpayers had the ability to rent a shuttle rather than
buy one, they could spend much more of their money on newer research.
Why spend so much when there already going there and you just have to
buy the space.
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It all seems like an excellent idea,
but there is a strong possibility it wont work out. Unfortunately I
would hate to see all of that money go to a dead end. There are so
many more things out there that can be learned with that cash.
Although the risk is great, the reward would save so much more money
for years to come. We all know eventually were going into space on a
more frequent basis so we might as well give our country a kick start
on an international industry!
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