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...telephone pole-sized commercial rocket that launched Monday from New Mexico had a lot more riding on it than just the high school experiments and cremated remains that were to be hurtled into space for paying customers. UP Aerospace of Connecticut heralded the maiden launch of its SpaceLoft XL rocket as the beginning of a new era of affordable public access to space...
...Even though the rocket failed 40,000 ft. in the air, corkscrewing back to earth for a crash landing moments after liftoff, the event marked a milestone in the rapidly approaching future of personal space travel...
...early days of a new era in space that says the average person now can get access to space," says Jim Banke, vice president of the Space Foundation. "What you're seeing here is basically guys working in a quiet little hangar somewhere to put together this rocket and launch it without needing 10,000 people and the vice president of the U.S. to show up to make it happen...
...succeeded, the SpaceLoft XL rocket would not have been the first privately funded craft to make the trip to space without federal funding or infrastructure. Two years ago, in what space buffs call the industry's "Charles Lindbergh moment," SpaceShipOne ferried passengers to space twice within two weeks to win the $10 million X Prize which, coincidentally, was sponsored by the family of Anousheh Ansari, the Dallas high-tech entrepreneur who is currently visiting the International Space Station as a paying customer...
...space frontier becomes officially open for business to pursue what until recently seemed impossible: Snag an asteroid into low-earth orbit to mine its minerals. Launch solar satellites to beam down all the cheap power we can use. Build space hotels for family tourism. "Whether it means flying a rocket to an inflatable hotel in low-earth orbit, these are far-fetched, fantasy things that are out there but suddenly become a little more real when you have private entrepreneurs trying to figure out how to launch into space," says Banke...