These guys have tried: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beal_Aerospace http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beal_Aerospace Andrew Beal is pretty famous, but he's better at

These guys have tried: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beal_Aerospace http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beal_Aerospace Andrew Beal is pretty famous, but he's better at banking than aerospace. There are lots of private companies building components for space exploration, but their margins are capped because their customer is the government. Atleast this is the gist I get from talking to my dad who is a program manager at Aerojet, which makes boosters for Delta and previously Titan.