Location
Cocoa Beach
Start Date
27-4-2007 8:00 AM
Description
America’s manned exploration of this our solar system ended with the grounding and storage of that resolute running back Saturn V. But the sense that it had really ended didn’t occur until Skylab plunged to its fiery end in Earth’s atmosphere. The much promised Space Shuttle was unable to launch in time to save it. The greatest losses were the opportunities that would have allowed mankind to press into deep space and eventually begin colonizing our solar system. Only after Shuttle began operations did American astronauts frequent space again. But the U.S. Space Policy of July 14, 1984 let not latitude and they were confined to Earth orbit.
Since then support for the U.S. space program has dwindled to smaller and smaller percentages. But within the past decade, a growing fraction of mankind has stopped waiting for someone else to provide them with their opportunity to be a part of a spacefaring human race. They have formed over 40 privately financed space programs and space activist organizations in the U.S. alone for the purpose of commercially developing space. This commercial and private space development has been called by several names, but lately the term NewSpace seems to have stuck and those involved are forging on with great determination to turn a profit in the utilization of the resources of this our solar system. During the next five years the effects of NewSpace will begin to be fully felt.
Technical Paper Session I-A - New Space: A Review
Cocoa Beach
America’s manned exploration of this our solar system ended with the grounding and storage of that resolute running back Saturn V. But the sense that it had really ended didn’t occur until Skylab plunged to its fiery end in Earth’s atmosphere. The much promised Space Shuttle was unable to launch in time to save it. The greatest losses were the opportunities that would have allowed mankind to press into deep space and eventually begin colonizing our solar system. Only after Shuttle began operations did American astronauts frequent space again. But the U.S. Space Policy of July 14, 1984 let not latitude and they were confined to Earth orbit.
Since then support for the U.S. space program has dwindled to smaller and smaller percentages. But within the past decade, a growing fraction of mankind has stopped waiting for someone else to provide them with their opportunity to be a part of a spacefaring human race. They have formed over 40 privately financed space programs and space activist organizations in the U.S. alone for the purpose of commercially developing space. This commercial and private space development has been called by several names, but lately the term NewSpace seems to have stuck and those involved are forging on with great determination to turn a profit in the utilization of the resources of this our solar system. During the next five years the effects of NewSpace will begin to be fully felt.
