Space Tourism Industry Lays Claim to Apollo’s Legacy

XCOR's Lynx suborbital vehicle

 

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Private space pioneers: We’re inheritors of Apollo legacy
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“Flight to space is an entire series of pinnacle life experiences,” said [Richard] Garriott, a 48-year-old board member of Space Adventures, the company that arranged his 12-day trip last year. “The view of the Earth is life changing.”

Garriott believes the United States hasn’t fulfilled the promise of the Apollo program yet.

“It was an assumed future that we’d all go to space [by now],” he said. “That hasn’t come to pass, and it’s created this interesting evolution of spaceflight right now.”

That evolution involves the privatization of space, and although the prospect of a spacecraft in every garage isn’t near, a few private firms are getting close to manned, commercial spaceflight.

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