Usually The Wacky People Have The Breakthroughs.

Since Yuri Gagarin And Al Shepard's Epoch Flights In 1961, All Space Missions Have Been Flown Only Under Large, Expensive Government Efforts. By Contrast, Our Program Involves A Few, Dedicated Individuals Who Are Focused Entirely On Making Spaceflight Affordable.

The Next 15 Years Will See Thousands Of People Leave The Atmosphere On Suborbital Flights. My Company's Ss2 System Might Fly 100,000 People By 2024. If It Is Shown To Be Highly Profitable, Perhaps We Will See 20,000 People Traveling To Orbit By 2035, And Then Thousands To The Moon By 2050. If We Make A Courageous Decision, Like The Program We Kicked Off For Apollo, We Will See Our Grandchildren In Outposts On Other Planets.

Nasa's Myriad Failures Are In Many Ways The Natural Consequence Of A Catastrophic Combination Of Bureaucracy, Monopoly, And A Calcifying Aversion To The Kind Of Risk Necessary For Innovation.

I Don't See Anything Beneficial About The Us Spending 100 Billion Dollars To Go Back To The Moon Unless We Learn Something New That Will Help Us Go To The Moons Of Saturn Okay And So We Ought To Use That To Breed New Breakthroughs And To Test New Breakthroughs And To Fund It.

With Any Luck, By The Time Nasa's Space Probe Hits Pluto, You'll Be Booking A Spaceflight With A Privately Run Suborbital Airline.