I am sure the government is in there somewhere but in spite of that SpaceX and Virgin Galactic are making progress big time. They don’t have to hire the Russians get them into space.
It is called (as close as we can get to) Free Market Capitalism. I just hope there is no tariff placed on space tourism.
Imagine what a Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezes or Bernie Sanders socialist space travel development program would look like.
Government Space Tourism Plane – Single Passenger in Safety Pod
by David Freeman
…After being released from under the wing of its carrier plane at 46,500 feet, VSS Unity fired its rocket motor for 42 seconds to propel itself and its two pilots to a speed of Mach 2.47, or almost two-and-a-half times the speed of sound, Virgin Galactic said in a blog post. Read the rest of this entry »
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