| | Another development: Bigelow Aerospace, which launched a one-third model of a private space station they want to place in orbit in a few years, is working with Lockheed-Martin to use Atlas V rockets for 14 tourist launches. Robert Bigelow has put up $25 million for the first private rockets that can put humans on orbiting stations, presumably his.
Meanwhile Anousheh Ansari, who put up money for the $10 million X-Prize, is in orbit now as the first paid female private explorer. Ansari is an Iranian immigrant who came to America and became a self-made multi-millionaire entrepreneur. She's an inspiring contrast to the little mud worms who run her homeland.
The X-Prize, of course, was won by Burt Rutan, who's working with Branson's Virgin Atlantic to produce a private space fleet.
You can see me on CNN's "In the Money" show at Saturday, Sept 23 at 1:00pm EDT or Sun., Sept. 24 at 3:00pm discussing the free market alternative to the government wasting our money in space.
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