Commercial Space Flight

 NASA's space fleet is powering down, but there are some commercial attempts to replicate, at least in part what NASA has done.

   One is the SpaceX Dragon, which has already successfully reached low earth orbit; the first commercial enterprise in history to do so.  So far only the cargo version is been flown, the manned version isn't planned for a few years.

  Quite Apollo in appearance, tiny and not reusable--still it is wonderful to see any development.

  Virgin Galactic is working on SpaceShipTwo, the larger successor to the single person craft that claimed the X-prize back in 2004.