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Personal Spaceflight Leaders Form New Federation

Posted by Zonk on from the what-is-their-prime-directive? dept.

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."

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  1. Damn! by serutan · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wonder if they considered United Federation of Planets. Even just for a fleeting moment?

    1. Re:Damn! by Joe+the+Lesser · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well, if they did that it'd warp the project into a joke.

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  2. Rolling in riches... by Avyakata · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can see a nice business here.
    The catch line would be something like, "For those with nothing left to buy on Earth..."

  3. Re:Wonderfully spooky by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    And what exactly was the date that he expects to die alone on?

    Dont worry folks, I will be here all week.

  4. How long before?.. by 21mhz · · Score: 3, Funny

    Carmack builds a large base on Mars to conduct some shady experiments, and, well, you know the rest?

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