Congratulations, I wish them success. Hopefully this spurs on everyone else and we can get a second space race. I think it is important we become a multi planet species as a long term survival strategy.
I agree completely. While we are definitely making progress, it is early days yet and we're still taking baby steps around the playpen of Earth. We haven't even toddled next door to our neighbor, Mars.
That said, it means there are lots and lots of exciting missions to look forward to as our technological abilities grow.
This is a huge step forward. It is hopefully going to commoditize space research and exploration, especially up to the Jupiter system where enough sunlight exists to power satellites.
For the foreseeable future that's is going to look like a permanently sustainable space colony that just happens to be travelling towards another system. Given the timescales involved.
this plus the recent Planetary Resources launch, plus the upcoming SpaceX rendezvous with the ISS are all pretty exciting milestones. some folks out there are pushing the human race forward. not just making trivial fadish photo sharing websites, etc.
This is incredible. Yes, it would be insanely cool to live in 2500s with all that privately affordable faster-than-light travel and everything but still... it's very exciting to see the progress being made by private/commercial space programs. I wish them all luck. It must be an amazing feeling to be a part of all this.
This is actually the only thing that's giving me hope that man could really step a foot on Mars or mine valuable resources on asteroids in a (hopefully) not too distant future.
That really is exciting, and I agree with your assessment of their ability to deliver. Maybe we’ll really see some developing industry in space in the next few decades... amazing. Even if it’s just vacuum industry, welding and such, it could open the way for solar power collection in space, light-sail probes, more advanced telescopes, and down the road, asteroid mining.
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