With NASA’s help, the private sector is looking to launch its profits into orbit.
This Flying Car Just Wowed the Detroit Auto Show. It Could Be in the Skies by 2025.in order for the agency to focus on deep-space exploration, lunar flights, and journeys to Mars. That leaves low-Earth orbit, the layer 250 miles above the atmosphere, as the next frontier in commercial space enterprises. NASA seems all for it, supporting private developers via grants that promise to set off a gold rush of scientific research—and tourism.
could begin construction on a station as early as 2027, with its initial phase supporting four astronauts—and combinations of both. Colorado-basedis joining forces with Airbus Defense to develop, build, and operate Starlab, a continuously crewed outpost slated to deploy from a single heavy-lift rocket before the ISS is decommissioned.to launch a “mixed-use business park” called Orbital Reef, which it hopes to establish by 2027.
Vast is in the latter camp, says Haot, though the term “space tourist” irks him. “These are private individuals who are real adventurers, more interested in furthering humanity’s understanding of space than going to a hotel in orbit.
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