Can a Small Start-up Build America's Next Spaceship?

New technology. New methodology. T/Space has a plan for getting to space that's so crazy it just might work

By Michael Belfiore Posted 09.13.2005 at 2:00 am 0 Comments

Gump says t/Space will always be "commercial to our core" and that it will pursue private space-tourism flights as aggressively as it does governmental work. But as NASA struggles under a mandate from President Bush to keep the space shuttles on life support until 2010, complete the half-built International Space Station, and somehow send people back to the moon and then on to Mars at the same time-all without significant additional funding from Congress-it faces a hard road. T/Space just might provide a solution to some of its problems.

Michael Belfiore wrote about the Bigelow space hotel in the March PopSci.

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