Sentence examples for spaceflight sector from inspiring English sources

Space law is a new frontier for the lawmakers and lawyers planted on Earth, and although the commercial spaceflight sector has grown enormously in the past decade – including Elon Musk's SpaceX and Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic – the prospects of space mining have remained unclear.

Texas wants to reclaim the mantle of space travel hub it won as the home of Nasa by taking advantage of the expanding private-sector spaceflight industry.

Texas' southern and coastal location is ideal for US-based orbitalauncheses, and the state has established the necessary laws to protect private-sector spaceflight activities from liability.

Only then will SpaceX be in a position to begin a 12-flight commercial cargo contract to the ISS worth $1.6 billion.Opponents of the idea of outsourcing spaceflight to the private sector will be watching closely, too.

This significant move to shift human spaceflight into the private sector sparked political debate, but much of the discourse has focused on impacts to "safety".

Although the scope of Mr Augustine's latest review does not allow for such an explicit conclusion this time, it would still be able to place more emphasis on private-sector human spaceflight and demand more unmanned missions to the moon.Even if the eventual conclusion is that astronauts should return to the moon, though, the means of getting them there must still be decided.

The agency's near-term plans include using the International Space Station (ISS) for demonstrations aimed at ensuring the safety of crews on long-duration spaceflights, and partnering with the commercial sector for transporting people and cargo to space stations.

NASA could focus on getting the costs of spaceflight down, and on helping the private sector to get tourists on sub-orbital flights.

After 30 years in earth orbit, the present political decision is to turn local space transportation over to the commercial sector and refocus Nasa's spaceflight attention on exploration.

In 2010, NASA announced the winners of the first phase of the program, a total of $50 million was divided among five American companies to foster research and development into human spaceflight concepts and technologies in the private sector.

That's a relatively cheap government investment for some private-sector ingenuity, and it's already going a long way to making spaceflight look more like airline travel.