Public and Private Space: Russian Competitive Opportunities

... released many specialists employed in government programs from the aerospace industries in the U.S. and Russia. And we have to hand it to the Americans for creating conditions for some of these people to remain in the profession and switch over to the commercial space sector or set up their space companies. This is how the “ecosystem” of private space exploration came into existence. And yet, the starting point of the revolution in the commercial astronautics was 2001, when the totally private sub-orbital aircraft SpaceShipOne ...