From today’s Kansas City Star
Travel to space station
Phil Swayne (3/14, Letters) brought up America’s lack of transportation to the International Space Station following the retirement of the shuttles in 2010. America is unlikely to have independent access to the station during the climax of its existence.
The same burgeoning commercial spaceflight industry that launched SpaceShipOne in 2004 might come to the rescue. NASA is already pursuing a contract with two of these start-ups, SpaceX and Orbital Sciences, to find a commercially viable alternative to launching its own missions to the station. Each of these contractors would launch craft, largely funded by NASA, to resupply the station, with designs capable of ferrying humans to and from the station.
This would not only save the dignity of our space program, it would also be a boon for commercial spaceflight, giving them a boost into the realm of orbital space and beyond.
-”Sir Knightly”
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