There has been a lot of interest in
space travel and ventures since NASA stopped their shuttle program. Much is
coming from the private sector. Three main contenders that have emerge are billionaires
, Amazon founder
Jeff Bezos , C.E.O of Tesla Motors Elon
Musk and
Blue Origin
This is a privately funded aerospace
company
owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos . The company is developing technologies to enable private
human access to space with the goal of dramatically lower cost and increased
reliability.
It is employing an incremental approach from suborbital to orbital
flight, with each developmental step. building on its prior work www.blueorigin.com/
Virgin Galactic
This is a company owed by Sir Richard Branson Virgin Group which plans to provide suborbital space
flights to space tourists, suborbital
launches for space science missions,
and orbital launches of small satellites.
Further in the future, Virgin Galactic hopes to offer orbital human
spaceflights as
well Virgin Galactic's spacecraft
is launched from a large aeroplane, giving the spacecraft more initial speed
and altitude than if it were launched from the ground. www.virgingalactic.com/
Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or SpaceX
is a
space transport company
headquartered in Hawthone
Carlifonia. It was founded in 2002 by former Paypal entrepreneur Elon Musk, with the goal of
reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars www.spacex.com/
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