Private capital, sensing new market opportunities, appears eager to pursue space-based business models to support human expansion, such as deep space transportation, Off-Planet habitation, manufacturing, and production of food and minerals on the Moon, and possibly asteroids.
In the case of Kiesler Prize recipient Toyo Ito, the influence has been aesthetic in the broadest sense, motivating his "desire to pursue spaces of simplicity and transparent nature".
With all its neighbors — China, Japan and North Korea — pursuing space programs, South Korea has been eager to have its own.
With China, Japan and North Korea pursuing space programs, South Korea has been eager to have its own.
China is pursuing space flight for national prestige and is investigating economic and military uses.
Responding to a question regarding individual who are pursuing space travel as an 'extracurricular interest', Gates said: "Everybody's got their own priorities.
A smaller group of companies is pursuing space flight without participating in the X Prize, said Dr. Charles Lurio, a space consultant in Boston.
This put me in mind of a stunned and disillusioned childhood of multimedia consumption in the 1970s: watching the adventures of that sexy quartet, Kirk, Spock, Scotty and Bones, as with eternal dynamism they pursued space adventures on TV.
