Comments on: ISPS Day 2: Spaceports, business models, and astronauts http://www.newspacejournal.com/2007/10/26/isps-day-2-spaceports-business-models-and-astronauts/ Tracking the entrepreneurial space industry Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:33:32 +0800 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Ben Brockert http://www.newspacejournal.com/2007/10/26/isps-day-2-spaceports-business-models-and-astronauts/comment-page-1/#comment-206163 Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:30:21 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2007/10/26/isps-day-2-spaceports-business-models-and-astronauts/#comment-206163 I actually consider the second to last point a negative. One of the allures of the New Space industry for me was the idea that maybe it would become possible for more people to fly in space. But if the market gets flooded by ex-astronauts, it’ll just be another ten or twenty years of putting the same people in orbit, just under a different logo.

I’m not discounting their capabilities, and it’s obviously in the best interest of the companies to hire people with experience. Just disappointing.

By the way, I have probably the only public video of the X-Racer tests. I’ll send you more info tomorrow.

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