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To: Captain Rhino
None of us will be around to see space commercialization in full bloom,

Ummm. With 12 commercial launches per year, and over 15 commercial companies doing those launches around the world.... yes... We're seeing space commercialization that has been going on for decades.

Governments don't build rockets. Nasa doesn't build rockets. They hire companies to build them.

/johnny

40 posted on 05/21/2012 7:18:09 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Well, if you narrow the definition to just “putting government and commercial satellites in orbit,” what you write is true. And understandably so, since that is where the revenue stream is currently pointed.

My vision of the “commercialization of space” is quite a bit broader and envisions orbiting resorts and long-term residences, medical facilities, commercial manufacturing plants, on-orbit services (including the removal of space junk), tranfer depots for passengers and cargoes bound for the Moon and beyond, exchanges with increasngly self-sufficient settlements on the Moon and Mars, etc.

All that is going to take awhile.


140 posted on 05/22/2012 2:02:26 AM PDT by Captain Rhino (Determined Effort is the hammer that Human Will uses to forge Tomorrow on the anvil of Today.)
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