Is it really possible to have a non-government space agency?
Most people think of space programs as gigantic, super expensive undertakings, completely out of reach of private companies or non-profit organizations. This view may once have been true but in 2009 it is rapidly becoming out of date. In May 2004, the Civilian Space eXploration Team launched the first amateur rocket into space. 5 weeks later, the private company Scaled Composites completed the world’s first non-government funded suborbital human spaceflight, winning the $10,000,000 Ansari X Prize. In 2008 and 2009, the private companies Armadillo Aerospace and Masten Space Systems won the 1st and 2nd levels of the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge by building vertical take off rocket systems suitable for landing on the moon. Today, a number of private companies and volunteer organizations are seriously competing for the Google Lunar X Prize by designing, building and testing systems designed to put a robot rover on the moon. Space exploration is quickly moving into the realm of w
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