Entrepreneurial Muscle Ready For Flexing

space.com ^ | 04/07/05 | Leonard David

[KevinDavis]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado – Entrepreneurs offer great promise in transforming the business of space, be it for spurring innovative space applications to hauling the public into space.

That was the consensus from the panelists on "The Entrepreneurial Spirit" session held Wednesday here at the 21st National Space Symposium.

Panel moderator, Courtney Stadd, President of Capitol Solutions, noted that Mike Griffin, newly nominated to take the helm of NASA, brings to the space agency "entrepreneurial sensibilities" – something unique in its history.

[KevinDavis]

Space the next Business Frontier.......

[KevinDavis]

[Jaysun]

Space the next Business Frontier.......

I'm all for it - PRIVATE business that is. If someone can figure out how to turn a dime in space more power to them.

[Brett66]

As for the space tourism, Nield said that dollar and people projections are encouraging, not only for a blossoming suborbital market, but also passenger flight into orbit. He said large investments by wealthy individuals show that "they are putting money where their mouth is" in making public space travel a reality.

I think we're at the same place historically as the Wright brothers were after their Kitty Hawk flight. It may take a couple of decades, but we'll soon surpass even the level of commercial activity shown in 2001 a Space Odyssey.

[KevinDavis]

Patience is required...

[AntiGuv]

commercial ventures in space - yay!

[RightWhale]

Heard another news piece on Texas and space mining claims. It is one of the men who have been claiming things in outer space for decades and even got to the point of having a court case. Colorado is involved, too.