Bring in the Competitor...

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Competition

We need competition in space! Yes, competition. We need companies who will be willing to go the extra mile for their customer, to provide them the safest ride to and from space. We need it done effectively, and we need the price to come down drastically. We need a new space market that would allow people to get excited about the future of space, and help regular people realize the possibilities of this grand solar system which they ignore everyday. 

Actually, all of this already exists.

We saw the beginnings of this space market through the work of MirCorp, the first private space business. We witnessed the Ansari X Prize, when Scaled Composites won the 10 Million prize for sending their vehicle into space. Quickly afterwards, Virgin Galactic was created, who will be sending thousands of people up to space very soon. Virgin Galactic has drastically brought down the flight of space travel. It is normal to see people getting rides into space for $50-$100 million, now it will be done for only $200,000 ( that is .4% of 50 million). That is insane.

Can the price of space travel get lower? check this out...

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Meeting Anousheh Ansari

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Anousheh Ansari - Why is this woman amazing?

She is the first ever female private space explorer. She was able to pay her own way up to the International Space Station (trip costing roughly 20+ million) because of the amazing hard work she had put in her whole life. She has gone from Iranian immigrant who could not speak english, to serial entrepreneur living out her dreams on Earth, and in Space. She is the founder and CEO of Telecom Technologies, Prodea Systems, as well as the Ahoora Foundation. The Ansari family was also responsible for providing 10 million dollars in prize money to the X-Prize foundation, which Scaled Composites won. Thanks to that competition, and the Ansari family prize money, Virgin Galactic was born.

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