When You Have A Transportation System That

There Was A Wonderful Little Short Four-year Time Period When Marvelous Things Happened. It Started In 1908, When The Wright Brothers Flew In Paris, And Everybody Said, 'ooh, Hey, I Can Do That.' There's Only A Few People That Have Flown In Early 1908. In Four Years, 39 Countries Had Hundreds Of Airplanes, Thousands Of Pilots.

I Believe That Research, That You Can Claim That You're Doing Research Only If Half Of The People, And I'm Talking About Half Of The Experts, Believe That The Goal Is Impossible.

There Is A Rampant Tendency In Any Industry Where Someone Is Trying To Sell Something With A Bunch Of Data, Where They Cherry Pick A Little Bit... Bias A Little Bit. This Becomes Quite Easy When There Is An Enormous Amount Of Data To Cherry Pick From.

The Next 15 Years Will See Thousands Of People Leave The Atmosphere On Suborbital Flights. My Company's Ss2 System Might Fly 100,000 People By 2024. If It Is Shown To Be Highly Profitable, Perhaps We Will See 20,000 People Traveling To Orbit By 2035, And Then Thousands To The Moon By 2050. If We Make A Courageous Decision, Like The Program We Kicked Off For Apollo, We Will See Our Grandchildren In Outposts On Other Planets.

Nasa Works For The White House. There Are Many At Nasa That Wish They Were Building A Modern Replacement For The Shuttle. However, They Had Marching Orders To Instead Work On Other Things, Some Of Which Should Have No Place In A Research Organization.