I should write a longer retrospective-with-distance on the alt-space times, but a few thoughts:
I should write a longer retrospective-with-distance on the alt-space times, but a few thoughts:
Many companies were aiming at the suborbital space tourism market. It is interesting to see Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic both spend more money to build that than SpaceX and now others took to make their first expendable orbital vehicle. BO and VG are never going to turn \
a profit on suborbital flights; the flight rate and risk profile won’t close for them. A small, scrappy company that accepted a catastrophic liability and image risk probably could have run profitably, but not companies that represent billionaires. \