InterPlanetary Ventures
Getting People Into Space
Storming The High Frontier!
June 27, 2009
Getting People Into Space, Permanently.
Space Station as Way Station
Getting To The Station
Space Station Proliferation
Halfway To Anywhere
CisLunar Spaceships
CATS: Really Cheap Access To Space!
The motto of InterPlanetary Ventures, “Getting People Into Space”, communicates what we believe is the key to our future in space. We must get increasing numbers of people interested in space research, supporting space exploration, invested in space development and involved in spaceflights to orbit, to the moon and into the solar system. The current trend in New Space, the private space industry, is to redesign and repeat what has already been done by government space programs, reducing the cost and development time by several orders of magnitude. Spaceship One has duplicated and exceeded the accomplishments of the X15 era rocket planes, flying into space at suborbital speeds. The Falcon 1 has duplicated the development of space launch rockets for lofting people and equipment into orbit. The Google Lunar X PRIZE competition is driving the development of robotic lunar exploration, duplicating the results of robotic exploration carried out by the US and the USSR prior to the Apollo program. GLXP team robotics will be on the moon in the next two years. The next step is the duplication of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo and Skylab program results, putting people into orbit and on the moon. Who will be first to orbit a space station for under $10 million? Who will be first to send someone into space for under $1 million?
