| The commercialization of space is here and now in | | | | the most efficient way to launch a private |
| the present period. We saw space ship one win the | | | | spacecraft?Is it best to launch it from a mother ship, |
| X-Prize and take home the check for $10 million. | | | | which carries it up or is it best to launch from the |
| Indeed Burt Rutan, Paul Allen and Sir Richard Branson | | | | ground? Some believe it may be easier to float the |
| were the first to send a private spacecraft into | | | | spaceship up on a giant balloon into the upper |
| space. Yes they were the first, but they are not the | | | | atmosphere and then launched from there.Indeed |
| only company working on this.There are many other | | | | there are competing theories on what to do and |
| companies working on private spacecraft, which will | | | | how to do it. Space ship one proved it could be done |
| be used to take space tourists into orbit and | | | | by flying to an altitude of 40,000 feet in launching |
| eventually to the moon. As a matter-of-fact several | | | | from there. Of course in the past NASA and the |
| people currently have such ambitions and dreams to | | | | USAF has launched rocket plane aircraft from giant |
| corner the market on space tourism.Space ship one in | | | | cargo type aircraft or bombers.In the end we will see |
| their newly formed company already house over | | | | one method prove that it is more efficient than |
| 35,000 people on a waiting list to go into space and | | | | another and perhaps this will be the one, which most |
| they already have deposits in the bank. But what is | | | | private space companies use. Consider this in 2006. |