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<p>Grammar</p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 16:45, 13 May 2012</td> </tr><tr><td colspan='4' align='center' class='diff-multi'>(One intermediate revision not shown)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 48:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 48:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Of this group, [[SpaceX]] and [[Orbital Sciences]] are the two funded participants in NASA's new [[Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program]] (which specifically required them to get some funding from people other than NASA).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Of this group, [[SpaceX]] and [[Orbital Sciences]] are the two funded participants in NASA's new [[Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program]] (which specifically required them to get some funding from people other than NASA).</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Other companies of interest include [[Bigelow Aerospace]], which, unlike many of the companies listed above, wants to build its own space stations rather than just servicing the [[International Space Station|ISS]], and plans to build it out of inflatable modules.&nbsp; Speaking of balloons, [[JP Aerospace]] has the perhaps not so crazy idea of using airships to get into low Earth orbit (or at least it's not quite as far-out as [[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Liftport </del>Group]]'s plan to run a [[space elevator]] cable from Earth to geosynchronous orbit).&nbsp; Then of course there's [[Burt Rutan]]'s company, [[Scaled Composites]], the first company to win the [[Ansari X Prize]] and prove that a non-government-funded manned spacecraft is not an oxymoron.&nbsp; Scaled is now working with [[Virgin Galactic]] to turn this historic achievement into a similarly historic space tourism venture. Two of the earliest African American owned commercial space companies <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">include </del>[http://www.solarsystemexpress.com Solar System Express] and [http://www.prlog.org/11153064-first-african-american-owned-commercial-space-company-launched.html Phezu]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Other companies of interest include [[Bigelow Aerospace]], which, unlike many of the companies listed above, wants to build its own space stations rather than just servicing the [[International Space Station|ISS]], and plans to build it out of inflatable modules.&nbsp; Speaking of balloons, [[JP Aerospace]] has the perhaps not so crazy idea of using airships to get into low Earth orbit (or at least it's not quite as far-out as [[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">LiftPort </ins>Group]]'s plan to run a [[space elevator]] cable from Earth to geosynchronous orbit).&nbsp; Then of course there's [[Burt Rutan]]'s company, [[Scaled Composites]], the first company to win the [[Ansari X Prize]] and prove that a non-government-funded manned spacecraft is not an oxymoron.&nbsp; Scaled is now working with [[Virgin Galactic]] to turn this historic achievement into a similarly historic space tourism venture. Two of the earliest African<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">-</ins>American<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">-</ins>owned commercial space companies <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">are </ins>[http://www.solarsystemexpress.com Solar System Express] and [http://www.prlog.org/11153064-first-african-american-owned-commercial-space-company-launched.html Phezu]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>On the suborbital side, in addition to Blue Origin and Scaled/Virgin, there are [[XCor]], [[Masten Space Systems | Masten]], and [[Armadillo]].</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>On the suborbital side, in addition to Blue Origin and Scaled/Virgin, there are [[XCor]], [[Masten Space Systems|Masten]], and [[Armadillo <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Aerospace</ins>]].</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">These </del>companies <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and more </del>come together at the annual [[NewSpace Conference]] hosted by the [[Space Frontier Foundation]].</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Many of these </ins>companies come together at the annual [[NewSpace Conference]] hosted by the [[Space Frontier Foundation]].</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[[Category: NewSpace]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[[Category: NewSpace]]</div></td></tr> </table>

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