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The New Spaceflight Renaissance
The Economist has a good roundup of what's going on in the private spaceflight business. They're pretty optimistic (appropriately, in my opinion).
Posted by Rand Simberg at May 11, 2006 12:21 PM
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This is a great thing. Progress is always slowest in areas dominated by one big player, such as NASA and spaceflight (one might throw in ESA and the former Soviet space program). I'm willing to be this will lead to rapid progress.
Too bad you don't see this sort of thing in energy fields. If there were dozens of organizations trying to produce, say, workable fusion, instead of a couple of giant labs, we might break the rolling '50 years away'.
Posted by Will Gore at May 11, 2006 02:07 PM
I would have used the phrase "Cambrian Explosion" as opposed to "Darwinian Explosion". Still, all in all a good piece.
Posted by Mike Puckett at May 11, 2006 02:09 PM
Anybody else bothered by the picture showing satellites and spacewalking.. they only later mention it's a few-minute suborbital hop. It's almost as the first chapter was written by someone else than the rest.
The rest is pretty well written.
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