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."

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Re:Space: A whole lotta nuthin

[dasdrewid]

I hate people who think like this. "We fucked up Earth, let's go somewhere else now." NO!

Maybe if we put as much time, energy, and MONEY into fixing the Earth, cleaning it up, finding more environmentally friendly solutions for things from energy to food packaging, then we might actually could stay here for a while longer. And enjoy it. When you trash your room after a party, do you just move out? No. You clean it up. Let's try doing that before we think about colonizing a new planet or two.