10-Year Plan

On Tuesday, October 22, 2002, at 06:25 PM, Ian Woollard wrote:

> Space is
> not a natural government monopoly; although NASA tries to make it look
> that way.

NASA started the communication satellite business and got out of the
way. NASA no longer does expendable rockets. NASA still does Earth
imaging, but a commercial market is developing. NASA actually has a
pretty good record of leaving a field once there is a real commercial
alternative. There is no commercial alternative, or much of a market
(yet), for manned space or deep space exploration, the areas NASA is
into the most.

Space tourism could be our ticket to the stars. Save your pennies,
suborbital flights for $100,000 may start in 2005! See
http://www.spaceadventures.com/suborbital for details.

Al Globus
CSC at NASA Ames Research Center
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html