Personal Spaceflight Leaders Form New Federation

Posted by Zonk on Thursday February 10, 2005 @04:12AM 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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Re:Damn! by c4miles · 2005-02-10 04:46 · Score: 4, Interesting

Virgin Galactic (Richard Branson's $21m investment in 5 passenger craft from Scaled Composites) will be naming its first two vehicles

"VSS Enterprise" and
"VSS Voyager" (where VSS is Virgin SpaceShip).

So yes, I suspect that the thought had crossed their minds :)