| The commercialization of space is here and now in the | | | | most efficient way to launch a private spacecraft?Is it |
| present period. We saw space ship one win the | | | | best to launch it from a mother ship, which carries it up |
| X-Prize and take home the check for $10 million. | | | | or is it best to launch from the ground? Some believe it |
| Indeed Burt Rutan, Paul Allen and Sir Richard Branson | | | | may be easier to float the spaceship up on a giant |
| were the first to send a private spacecraft into space. | | | | balloon into the upper atmosphere and then launched |
| Yes they were the first, but they are not the only | | | | from there.Indeed there are competing theories on |
| company working on this.There are many other | | | | what to do and how to do it. Space ship one proved it |
| companies working on private spacecraft, which will | | | | could be done by flying to an altitude of 40,000 feet in |
| be used to take space tourists into orbit and eventually | | | | launching from there. Of course in the past NASA and |
| to the moon. As a matter-of-fact several people | | | | the USAF has launched rocket plane aircraft from |
| currently have such ambitions and dreams to corner | | | | giant cargo type aircraft or bombers.In the end we will |
| the market on space tourism.Space ship one in their | | | | see one method prove that it is more efficient than |
| newly formed company already house over 35,000 | | | | another and perhaps this will be the one, which most |
| people on a waiting list to go into space and they | | | | private space companies use. Consider this in 2006. |
| already have deposits in the bank. But what is the | | | | |