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This week there's a huge meeting in Las Cruces, New Mexico: the International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight. Just about everyone who's anyone in aerospace is there and some interesting quotes are already emerging;
Patricia Hynes, director of the New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, said;
The major buzz came from new NASA Administrator and former astronaut General Charles Bolden (retired), who said;
Not to forget that in his confirmation hearings Gen. Bolton called VASIMR plasma rocket inventor and former astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz "my hero".
Other NASA presenters constantly referred to the air-mail model for promoting private space companies, recalling how the government encouraged commercial aviation in the 1920's by granting air-mail delivery contracts to private carriers.
Looking very good for commercial space companies
Patricia Hynes, director of the New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, said;
The way we do space business will change
Today, we at NASA are devising ways to work with these companies and others who will come...I urge you, and all other investors, to take notice. Space may someday soon become the new thing in investing.
Other NASA presenters constantly referred to the air-mail model for promoting private space companies, recalling how the government encouraged commercial aviation in the 1920's by granting air-mail delivery contracts to private carriers.
Looking very good for commercial space companies