As you may know, NASA’s 1970’s technology Space Shuttle is about to retire, and NASA hopes to have a replacement system after a gap of a few years. Good planning, guys! Sure, the U.S. has plans to hire French and Japanese and possibly even Chinese technology until we can catch up in space.
Enter SpaceX
This completely private, completely civilian company has just launched a satellite [1], and has paying customers queued up for future launches [2]. Including NASA. Kudos to PayPal founder Elon Musk for going from start-up to commercial flights in just 7 years.
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