First Private Flight To Space Station This Week

American Voices • Opinion • ISSUE 48•20 • May 16, 2012

SpaceX, the privately owned spaceflight company, is planning to launch a robotic capsule to the International Space Station this Saturday. What do you think?

“I just don’t trust the private sector to properly equip a rocket the way the government does. What happens if they need to make some triplicate forms up there?”
Kelly Green –
Lacquerer
“Hopefully a private flight will finally introduce the kind of prestige and exclusivity that's always been lacking in space travel.”
Lou Hogan –
Systems Analyst
“Our collective better get to work on the first anarcho-syndicalist-owned capsule right away, then.”
Isaac Guinn –
Heel Compressor

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