superchunk said:
Ah, virgin was one of the companies I was thinking of; didn't know it was UK. So the other US company is like skyone or something. I'd have to research it if I cared that much. I want to see a real spacecraft that can take off and actually travel in space with no issues. Not these hybrid rocket-planes that just barely reach orbit. Something that can take off, go to space, tag moon, land and then repeat within an hour or so if desired. |
YEah Vrigin is British.....owned by Sir Richard Branson, a very famous entrepreneur.
And Spaceone is the US company 
And I agree with your last line, but I think we're a while away from that unless space becoems comercialised quickly and corporations feel research into new technologies is justified.
If our rate of space research had stayed at the levels it was in the days when everyone wanted to land a man on the moon, your idea of that dream spaceship would be a reality by now. But obviously research and funding was cut down for the space programme!
Cutting of funding is fair enough, I can see the US had other priorities then and making such spaceships we see in movies didn't serve any purpose especially cus we haven't found another world thats habitable for us nor have we found rare, valuable minerals or anything on other planets....yet.
