Hey, This Commercial Space Stuff is For Real!
A Boeing CST-100 crew module docks at a Bigelow Aerospace space station. (Credit: Boeing)
Space, Inc. moving closer to launch Florida Today Special Report
Florida Today traveled coast to coast, toured secretive facilities, saw first-hand highly proprietary work under way and interviewed dozens of key players trying to stimulate this new industry at altitudes hundreds of miles above Earth.
Our four-month analysis found that U.S. private industry is more than capable of developing spacecraft to fly U.S. astronauts to and from low Earth orbit.
What’s more, U.S. aerospace companies already are developing, testing and launching prototypes.
Their plans are not just PowerPoint presentations and engineering drawings. Commercial companies are cutting metal, assembling engines, testing steering thrusters, and in some cases, spacecraft already are orbiting the Earth.
Read the special report.
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