Who cares about history?

[Dave]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

The X-Prize helped, I think, but didn't go far enough. It didn't create a spark for ongoing development.

Ss2 is very close to its first orbital flight but the plans for ss3 have already scaled way back in scope. Another corp has a mercury style capsule put together called dragon I think.

Its all kind of useless until we work out a way to cheaply ship up materials and build in orbit.