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Until there is an alternative established market, realistically you are only looking at getting a slice of the government funds, as that IS the market. And if
by jurjenh 16y ago
Until there is an alternative established market, realistically you are only looking at getting a slice of the government funds, as that IS the market.
And if for that $1B you can achieve what currently would cost $15B and up (orion - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_(spacecraft) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_(spacecraft) ), then what other reason do you need?
Government has deemed it necessary to spend this money, so its in your best interest (as it is your money) to make sure that this gets used most efficiently.
- InclinedPlane 16y agoTo date 8 individuals have flown to orbit as tourists, paying around $20 million each for the privilege. This despite the fact that no existing space program is set up for such tourism and much of the bureaucratic apparatus behind every existing governmental space program is more or less hostile to that sort of thing. And yet, somewhere around a sixth of a billion dollars has been spent on orbital tourism. What will the market look like when much less costly sub-orbital trips are available and when there are companies and space craft purpose built for tourism? Every indication is that there are billions of dollars to be had from tourism alone. And any company, such as SpaceX, with a vehicle that could also fly commercial satellite payloads is in an excellent position to bootstrap its way profitably from zero to a manned space program so robust that would make the Apollo engineers blush in jealousy.