Friday, February 17, 2006

Commercial space flight

The X prize was the first step: to gauge if space flight could be achieved under a certain cost. The next step is to get it to turn a profit.
Link to a Feb. 17th NY Times Article.
2003, "Target", Scott Listfield, via Austin Lee, via Tyler Paint

2 comments:

Pete said...

That's pretty crazy.

Ryan said...

'the world' link you posted is pretty crazy, but in some ways not surprising i mean they built a giant skiing resort in the middle of the desert and they want to build a giant snow dome city next.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4491210.stm

talk about more money than you know what to do with.