Buy Your Ticket to Space in 2008
Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta told a group of space-travel enthusiasts last month that the DOT/ FAA will be ready to issue permits for commercial
Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta told a group of space-travel enthusiasts last month that the DOT/ FAA will be ready to issue permits for commercial space travel next year, and trips paid for by passengers could begin in 2008.
During his keynote speech at the ninth annual Commercial Space Transportation Conference in Washington, the DOT Secretary revealed that his department, which is responsible for authorizing commercial space travel, would be ready to approve the passenger flights once tests of craft designed to take passengers into space were completed. He said he expects to issue permits next year to allow the test flights, and if these flights are successful, the department would then issue a license for passenger space flight.
