Downloaded from: justpaste.it/sdiprof originally posted at http://friendfeed.com/ewing2001/874b3cd1/profiteers-from-9-11-private-space-flight-sdi http://twitpic.com/7ju24 - Profiteers from 9/11 : Private Space-Flight (SDI '2009+Con Companies Overview) June 16 from - Comment - Like - Share - Edit http://twitpic.com/7ju24 Private Space-Flight -SDI '2009+Con': Companies Overview a) Crew and cargo capsules ++++ ARCASPACE -- Or english for "Romanian Cosmonautics and Aeronautics Association" , a non-governmental organization. The agency has committed itself as a competitor in the Lunar X-Prize. +++ Bigelow -- North Las Vegas, Nevada startup company founded in 1999 by hotelier Robert Bigelow. Bigelow has reserved a 2011 launch on the SpaceX [founded by PayPal co-founder Elon Musk] [manufactured by SpaceX]. Bigelow is in talks with Lockheed Martin to contract launch services on its - 401 vehicle. +++ - You (edit | delete) -- Privately-funded aerospace company set up by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos. Under the current timetable, Blue Origin will fly unmanned in 2011 and manned in 2012. Employees of Blue Origin include science fiction author Neal Stephenson [Snow Crash (1992), The System of the World (2004) etc...]. +++ EADS -- see EADS files at http://friendfeed.com/search... ; 'Flight AF447-EADS-Radar Incompetence Theory' http://ff.im/3Ruid etc... +++ Excalibur Almaz -- Derived from the formerly secret Soviet space program. Chief of operations is Leroy Chiao, formerly a NASA , Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Commander of the ISS (International ). +++ -- Canadian aerospace engineers; formed in 1996. +++ - You (edit | delete) Galactic Suite Ltd.-- Founded in 2007, linked to the Aerospace Research and Technology Centre (CTAE), which cooperates with the Spanish National Institute of Aerospace Technology, INTA. http://www.ctae.org/index... +++ -- Founded in 1996 by Roderick and Randa Milliron, who also co-founded Trans Lunar Research. +++ Orbital Sciences Corp.-- Orbital formerly owned ORBIMAGE (now GeoEye) and the Magellan line of GPS receivers, though they are now divested (the latter to Thales UK). Among Orbital's notable Partnerships is Lockheed Martin, Alliant Techsystems (ATK) [linked to Obama's new head of NASA Charles F. Bolden, Jr./"Free Electron Laser Paper 1994", Thales Alenia Space etc... See also Orbital, GeoEye and Thales files at http://friendfeed.com/search... ; http://friendfeed.com/search... ; http://friendfeed.com/search... +++ PlanetSpace --- Chicago- based rocket and space travel project founded by Geoff Sheerin, CEO of the corporation. In February 2009, PlanetSpace announced it has added the division of The Boeing Company to its existing teammates, Alliant Techsystems and Lockheed Martin Corporation on the proposed solution to NASA for the Commercial Resupply Services to the International Space Station. http://www.planetspace.org/lo... +++ Reaction Engines Ltd. --- British company based in Oxfordshire. +++ - You (edit | delete) --- Formed in 2006 by Rocketplane Limited, Inc. after it acquired Kistler Aerospace. In August 2006, NASA announced that Rocketplane Kistler h