Out at the Mojave Airport there is a new enterprise section called The Mojave Spaceport. There, multi billionaires and other entreupeneurs are building and experimenting with the future of aerospace.
For instance, one of them is Paul Allen who made many billions with microsoft. He along with such an illustious aerospace pioneer as Burt Rutan has founded another company called StratoLaunch. They have already built one of the largest single aircraft hangers in the entrie world, and are now builting the largest aircraft ever to be built by the hand of man. It will be powered by six large jet engines built to power the Boeing 747. It will have a 385 foot wing span. Yes, that is some 85 feet longer than the length of a football field the long way! It will be a twin boomed aircraft, with each boom larger than the fuselage of a 747 aircraft. Between the booms a rocket capable of placing a medium sized satelite into LEO (that is a maximum of about 16.000 lbs) can be launched at a very reduced cost per launch. However, the main advantage of such a system is that it will give satelite companies the ability to launch upon demand, without waiting for the months of wait for a vertical launch date they now have (I think it will launch in less than two weeks from the initial need for such a launch).
But Allen & company have already stated that one of their long term plans are to be able to launch a small but very efficient winged shuttle type of craft to carry human beings into LEO at an unheard of low cost!! Thus, opening up the realms of cis lunar space to humanity in a manner never even dreamed of in the past!!
And this is all very heavily supported by the state of California, and requires the kind of educated work force that only a state with the greatest higher educational system in the world can even begin to think about. And that means that very advanced aerospace manufaturing will be returning to the state of California in the reasonably near future. And this is only one of the many such efforts being engineered out at the Mojave Spaceport!!
Of course, I would not expect someone with the lack of the knowledge of things technical, such as someone like Lisa Bensen to even begin to understand this!
The companies, communities, and states that support the expansion of humaity into space itself are going ot be the Saudi Arabias of oil of the future!!
Out at the Mojave Airport there is a new enterprise section called The Mojave Spaceport. There, multi billionaires and other entreupeneurs are building and experimenting with the future of aerospace.
For instance, one of them is Paul Allen who made many billions with microsoft. He along with such an illustious aerospace pioneer as Burt Rutan has founded another company called StratoLaunch. They have already built one of the largest single aircraft hangers in the entrie world, and are now builting the largest aircraft ever to be built by the hand of man. It will be powered by six large jet engines built to power the Boeing 747. It will have a 385 foot wing span. Yes, that is some 85 feet longer than the length of a football field the long way! It will be a twin boomed aircraft, with each boom larger than the fuselage of a 747 aircraft. Between the booms a rocket capable of placing a medium sized satelite into LEO (that is a maximum of about 16.000 lbs) can be launched at a very reduced cost per launch. However, the main advantage of such a system is that it will give satelite companies the ability to launch upon demand, without waiting for the months of wait for a vertical launch date they now have (I think it will launch in less than two weeks from the initial need for such a launch).
But Allen & company have already stated that one of their long term plans are to be able to launch a small but very efficient winged shuttle type of craft to carry human beings into LEO at an unheard of low cost!! Thus, opening up the realms of cis lunar space to humanity in a manner never even dreamed of in the past!!
And this is all very heavily supported by the state of California, and requires the kind of educated work force that only a state with the greatest higher educational system in the world can even begin to think about. And that means that very advanced aerospace manufaturing will be returning to the state of California in the reasonably near future. And this is only one of the many such efforts being engineered out at the Mojave Spaceport!!
Of course, I would not expect someone with the lack of the knowledge of things technical, such as someone like Lisa Bensen to even begin to understand this!
The companies, communities, and states that support the expansion of humaity into space itself are going ot be the Saudi Arabias of oil of the future!!