To: RoadTest
Let private enterprise do it. They're already doing brilliantly in near space. Is private enterprise somehow immune to the Cold Equations of Space? They're not.
And they're also not immune to the Cold Equations of Return on Investment. Aside from the fabulously profitable comsat market, private enterprise hasn't got much incentive to go into space right now.
15 posted on
09/09/2005 6:03:05 AM PDT by
r9etb
To: r9etb
Would there be some way to get around this by keeping some of the propulsion system earthbound? Like a humongous slingshot or catapult?
19 posted on
09/09/2005 6:11:04 AM PDT by
The Red Zone
(Florida, the sun-shame state, and Illinois the chicken injun.)
To: r9etb
Aside from the fabulously profitable comsat market, private enterprise hasn't got much incentive to go into space right now.Well that's not true. Virgin Airlies, or some spin-off, is already placed orders for spacecraft and is selling, or plans to sell, 'space vacations'.
111 posted on
09/09/2005 6:45:39 PM PDT by
Balding_Eagle
(God has blessed Republicans with really stupid enemies.)
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