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The Space Elevator - Public or Private?

Posted by michael on from the deep-pockets dept.

AtomicGoat writes "The Space Review reports that a Space Elevator may not get built without help from the U.S. Government, but the notion that 'the DoD can also provide a sense of fiscal discipline when dealing with large, expensive programs' sounds like an Onion story. Right now a small private company (Liftport), not NASA or the Air Force, is in the lead on revolutionary space travel."

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  1. Sight seeing by McFly69 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I wonder if I can go all the way up just to sight see. Love to be a tourist :)

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  2. Re:Why? by kmmatthews · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Whoa! A real live descriptive user name.

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