SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has seemed more interested in making it to Mars than in building commercial space stations, but the spacefaring startup would be an interesting candidate in terms of private companies who could potentially assume control of the ISS.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has seemed more interested in making it to Mars than in building commercial space stations, but the spacefaring startup would be an interesting candidate in terms of private companies who could potentially assume control of the ISS.
The technology could be there, but the passion has gone at least in the traditional spacefaring powers, America and Russia.The space cadets' other hope, China, might pick up the baton.
The new year is upon us, and there will be no escape from the relentless comparisons between the spacefaring future world we saw in Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" and the reality of our measly earthbound life in the real 2001.
The optimistic Dr. McCurdy noted that private entrepreneurs continued to invest in space technology and transport systems and that "other nations clamor to join the spacefaring club".
The risk was divvied up among the spacefaring nations, with the United States receiving just under half of the total allocation: one chance in forty thousand.
This is our opportunity to develop a more internationalist vision, to which all the spacefaring nations contribute".
Thus, 11 months after the worst disaster in spacefaring history, the United States finds itself well into the space age without a bold vision of where it is going and what it wants to achieve in space and without a coherent, comprehensive national policy guiding its diverse endeavors, according to aerospace experts, members of Congress and space officials.
Explosions aren't always signs of failure when you're dealing with science, and in the case of spacefaring tech that's even more true.
In the meantime, every spacefaring nation on Earth has been dependent on Russia to ferry its crews to and from the ISS with the Soyuz capsule.
