Launch Costs

At 06:34 AM 5/23/2006, you wrote:
>From: spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com
>[mailto:spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Michael
>Persohn-Costa
>
> > How Easy would it be to factory-build rockets like we do automobiles?

To date a few thousand large rockets have been built. Billions of
automobiles have been built. To get really good at building rockets we
need to build a lot more than a few thousand. The only real market for
millions of rockets capable of reaching orbit may well be tourism. Thus,
developing the space tourist market is probably the most important single
space activity today (IMHO).