Private Space Tibbits

Benson Space has signed an agreement with SpaceDev to develop Phase I of the Dream Chaser space ship. Benson said: "It's official -- we've begun our countdown to what I expect will be BSC's first suborbital flights by the end of 2008."

Sounds good to me.
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The Astronaut Farmer was obviously written by the private space group I mentioned last week who thinks NASA is the great evil of the world.
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Michael Belfiore's new book Rocketeers is coming this summer.
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UGS will be building the software for the K-1 for RocketPlane Kistler.
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Curran R. Kemp thinks only private colonies will work. He thinks that is why we haven't settled Antarctica.