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How Commercial Space Is Paying Off Now
"It’s still a “Field of Dreams” proposition—“if you build
it, they will come.” Even so, NASA’s as-yet-unrealized efforts to offload routine human space access onto the private sector is beginning to ripple across the U.S. launch industry in ways that could go well beyond transporting people and their stuff into space. Brash entrepreneurs like Elon Musk, who openly declares his intention to take over the worldwide launch industry with lower-cost launchers than the competition’s, are exerting downward price pressure on traditional launch-vehicle manufacturers. And the possibility of an off-planet economy in low Earth orbit (LEO) has triggered a new round of innovative launcher designs, not all of them “paper rockets” and some of them quite different from traditional vehicles. “We’ve selected the Atlas V for our test flights through the Commercial Crew Program,” says John Mulholland, vice president and manager of Commercial Programs for Boeing Space Exploration. “But we will continue to maintain our design to be compatible with multiple launch vehicles so that we can competitively procure launch vehicles in the future, which is important for us to maintain best value, obviously. The launch vehicle is such a huge portion of our offer.”" See: http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/gener...w&channel=awst |
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