Can They Beat Virgin Galactic?

[Swampcat]

<font color="#ffdddd"><b>AERA Corporation To Become First Commercial Space Travel Provider</b></font><br /><br /><blockquote><p align="left"><font color="#ffcccc">AERA Corporation announced today that in the rapidly emerging commercial space travel industry, it will be the first provider to launch passengers into space.<br /><br />Based on 30 years of proven technology, the Company has completed the design of the safest space flight system ever created and is now working on details and logistics for its first flight scheduled for 2006.</font></p></blockquote><br /><br />More...<br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="3" color="#ff9900"><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>------------------------------------------------------------------- </em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government."</em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong>Thomas Jefferson</strong></font></p></font> </div>

 

[tap_sa]

Right next to the article was news of another contender. Good, competition!

 

[wvbraun]

Rocketplane is also in the game. They have the funding and plan to begin commercial flights in 2007.<br /><br />So we have Virgin Galactic, Rocketplane, Blue Origin, AERA Corporation and Odyssey Spacelines. This is really looking good. With any luck there will be a vibrant space tourism industry by 2010.

 

[kdavis007]

The more the better...