Commercial Spaceflight: Big Decade, Big Future
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SPACE.com's Space Insider Columnist
posted: 31 December 2009
07:14 am ET
It's been a wild and crazy ride in space since the first decade of the 21st century began, but as it nears its close the realm of commercial space travel has taken one giant leap into reality. Now, commercial space is on a growth-curve, with a whirlwind of large and small companies ready to offer a variety of skills. There is growing recognition of this fact, evidenced by the recent Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee – a report that spotlighted the commercial space industry, advising NASA to encourage and use more commercial space services to support future human space missions. Even so, the coming year is shaping up like a space-based game of "Truth or Dare". READ MORE: Space.com