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Will the Future of Space Travel Be Driven by Entepreneurs?
dailygalaxy.com — Spaceship_2_2 Costa Rican-American physicist/rocket scientist Franklin Chang-Diaz is typical of the new breed of entrepreneurs driving the future of space travel. The future astronaut has some interesting insights on the kind of power and propulsion will need in order to truly colonize space.
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- gigibachorski, on 07/08/2008, -1/+2No!, it'll be driven by the poor, home-less and destitute
- wynja, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1Anyone not getting the point here should read this short story written by NASA engineers: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/784106/post ...
- DrPaul2008, on 07/08/2008, -0/+2Private, or commercial, space industry may represent humans' last chance to live freely... or to live at all.
- bluezky, on 07/08/2008, -0/+0soon enough we might be looking back to this age and realize that
all we have been through, through humanity's history, were all but
a birth process into the technological era we are projecting and moving
ourselves to as a race, an era of wisdom and beauty beyond our
wildest dreams, or be devastated by our puny habits of survivability
and possession which will drive us to reduce our achievements
into tiny and meaningless particles ..?.... - Bukowsky, on 07/08/2008, -0/+2I would guess a combination of both... but I also think there will be more and more entrepreneurs trying to capitalize on the lure of Space Travel.
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