
Last Wednesday, when the veteran NASA shuttle Discovery landed at Cape Canaveral in Florida - after his last trip - his arrival was heralded as the beginning of the end of the era of the shuttles, which will conclude definitively that the June 28 launch of Atlantis. As a paradox of fate just days before the Discovery touched down, another ship, this aerospace company Virgin Galactic, had departed from the same place on a suborbital flight prueba.El SpaceShipTwo aircraft, known as VSS Enterprise, will, surely a very different stage in the research history of the cosmos, as it will be the first belonging to a private company to espacio.Sucederá leading scientists in 2013 or perhaps sooner - possibly as early as 2012 - when flights begin their tour, a fad for the rich by competing a wide array of companies, which confirms the operation of the cosmos as a business. In fact, the participation of private firms may be the only outlet for government space agencies, stifled by the lack of funds and some of its planetary missions hanging by a thread. Thus a group of experts - including several astronauts and senior NASA - called earlier this month in an open letter to U.S. Congress to support the next commercial spaceflight. This would allow private ship building still carry astronauts to the ISS. Meanwhile, NASA would have time to design a rocket that could lead to further human being, to an asteroid or even to Mars. Virgin Galactic, the company's millionaire Sir Richard Branson, is the great advantage in this long distance race. Has produced a new generation of ships whose original purpose is to transport tourists around 100 kilometers above the Earth's surface, but now also conduct scientific flights, whose objective will be to conduct experiments in weightlessness associated with the formation of the planets and the origins of Solar.Además system of scientific adventure, Virgin Galactic continues its intention to be the first commercial space tourism, a feat he will try to meet in early 2012. However not the only company willing to approach the star, since there are other competing - As Blue Origin, Space Adventures Space X - who will want their share of the business. As can be seen, the competition will be fierce and relentless and will gain not necessarily the best, as I say:)
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