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Personal Spaceflight Leaders Form New Federation
Neil Halelamien writes "A number of entrepreneurs in the nascent commercial space industry are establishing the Personal Spaceflight Federation, an industry group which will work with federal regulators to come up with standards to promote crew and passenger safety. The founders include both suborbital and orbital spaceflight entrepreneurs, such as Armadillo Aerospace's John Carmack, Scaled Composites's Burt Rutan, SpaceX's Elon Musk, and t/Space's Gary Hudson. Commentary available on MSNBC, Space.com, and Space Race News. In related news, NASA is looking at commercial options for resupply of the International Space Station."
I wonder if they considered United Federation of Planets. Even just for a fleeting moment?
I thought Enterprise was cancelled? We still need to invent the warp drive, make first contact, and impress those aliens with how well humans can all get along.
...it's not led by Zap Brannigan.
Earn a free iRiver
Any day now, credit card companies will start offering Frequent Flier Light-Years, or something like that...
The problem with socialism is that they always run out of other people's money. - Margaret Thatcher
I can see a nice business here.
The catch line would be something like, "For those with nothing left to buy on Earth..."
And what exactly was the date that he expects to die alone on?
Dont worry folks, I will be here all week.
United Federation of Planet.
as long as they only control their part of space i don't care
Damn you, I wanted to be the first to make that joke! : )
Maybe they aren't allowed to influence the cultures of the countries in which they crash?
You can't take the sky from me...
Carmack builds a large base on Mars to conduct some shady experiments, and, well, you know the rest?
My exception safety is -fno-exceptions.