By Dan Linehan

“One of the main extraordinary accomplishments in our conquest of gravity.” — Sir Arthur C. Clarke
 
In April, 2003, an organization referred to as Scaled Composites brought SpaceShipOne to the realm. SpaceShipOne: An Illustrated History chronicles the improvement of the world’s first advertisement manned house program—aprogram that incorporates an airborne launcher (the White Knight), an area send (SpaceShipOne), rocket propulsion, avionics, simulator, and whole flooring help. With abundant illustrations, photos, and behind-the-scenes info, SpaceShipOne presents an entire photograph of this labeled project.
 
The tale of SpaceShipOne combines the adventurous spirit of Charles Lindbergh, the entrepreneurial force of Howard Hughes, and the urgency of the gap race on the peak of the chilly War.

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At the present time, the role of these countries is basically limited to being consumers of space technology, most particularly communications. The various countries in the international space arena are in a curious position of simultaneously competing and cooperating with each other. ESA and NASA probably represent an extreme case. On the one hand, they have been competing viciously for the rights to launch commercial satellites on their various space vehic1es. But the two groups cooperated in building instrumentation for one of the most complicated space satellites ever launched: the Space Telescope.

It is true that colonialism exploited people as weIl as natural resources and is thus morally tainted. However, space industrialization will not involve exploitation of the local inhabitants (as there are none) and therefore does not carry the moral connotations that colonialism did. Peter Glaser of Arthur D. Little, an observer of the space program for many years and a promoter of the idea of solar power satellites, ably described this view of the space program at the 1984 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science: Tbe space station opens the door to American industry, and in that sense it far surpasses the importance of the space shuttle.

For example, if the national vision is that NASA should build aspace station, I can support such a project even though the science, by itself, cannot justify the cost of building aspace station. I share Van AIlen's concern that a massive pro gram like the space station might, if it were to become the exclusive focus of NASA's activities, leave everything else that NASA is or should be doing in the dust. But does this concern mean that we shouldn't build aspace station, particularly as the concept of a "balanced program" has been endorsed in many high-level policy statements?

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