United Launch Alliance Plans For 1,000 People Working In Space By 2045 (blastingnews.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday July 3, 2016 @07:35PM from the bright-side-of-the-moon dept.

What if you could produce rocket fuel in outer space -- making it 83% cheaper? One company sees this as the basis a self-sustaining "space economy" based on refueling Earth-orbiting spaceships. Slashdot reader MarkWhittington writes: Jeff Bezos, of both Amazon and Blue Origin, may ruminate about moving a lot of industry off the planet, but the United Launch Alliance, that joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Boeing, has a concrete plan to do so. ULA is working on an idea to have 1,000 people operating in Earth-moon space by 2045, less than 30 years away...

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Re:Working? Why? by Tyr07 · 2016-07-03 20:16 · Score: 3, Informative

I guess you didn't even read the slashdot version of the article that says they can do it 83% cheaper in space...you know 'we need something that is cheaper in space than on earth'\
But your anonymous coward post does suggest you're most likely a troll or the article submitter trying to get comments.