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fifteen years after the first satellite was launched in placed in orbit
a handful of enterprising visionaries decided to revolutionized
the conquest of space in the desert of america's far west these pioneers
working in their modest garages designed the most insane machines to transport
the common man into the galaxy long-standing dream which would soon
become a reality
a
heavyweights
on
who has not it sometime fantasized about joining to the stars
in the united states the stream is extremely widespread in san diego were
off to meet some includes the asu hope to become the next space two arrests
they spend some days in the garage is making rockets
the president of inflammatory prettier club in the region
like every year the members build the rocket together
which they will launch during their feet annual meeting
this time they've taken on a replica of little joel launcher used by nasa sports
mercury program
island
this rockets powered by solid rocket motors provided by are c_s_ aerotek
which the company up in utah
and they get a fuel similar to what goes in the space shuttle
the total vehicle weight is about five hundred twenty five pounds
so once he arrived we light all seventies motors together
and uh... the lateral takeoff hopefully vertically
once the motive burnout
the rocket separate right here
uh... and this other small capsule assembly in everything
is ejected from a rocket using a large explosive charges side the rocket
acrylic to about a half a cup a black car
so inherently thinking like twelve inches
perfect box which would put his wife
but by support at all
went straight back
yes take back what wheels on the bed that will look at it
we
got
holding so it's like star trek in
teams of people traveling statesmanship to go out for years behind in everything
and highway joy that in a going to place it no person has ever been doing
travel the world i've been in the military have been on every continent on
the planet like we would like to request i have been before
had to get any kind i think for people
if they get the common man up into space and i think very soon would probably
within twenty years while people living in space for time alot or to help on one
of people
macy's for the world as with lots of bob dole really has
but those and then uh...
seasonal and were not available now
in the house over that's all this
the design all these teachers take waste into a space everything like west
stations here
so i wish that we hopefully get the actors were sitting over populated this
prima donna deserve
global warming
home have colonies other than earth i think they'll happen my generation maybe
not theirs but
but we do a very well and plasticity
a ghost town located two hours from san diego
the california i met a rocket sierra club stormy here once a year to launch
their home in a hot
we quiet four three three one
the
little children to ride safely
between take-offs each member shows his finest work
here
forgery good morning
this is a barbie doll i'd done it for christmas
two years ago
from my sons
and week took a g_i_ joe only apollo and took him output barbie in it
bill for rocket is twelve feet tall and she's been up to all three thousand feet
twice already
very well
anna
aa
here
good afternoon blaster blaster
started along the way with a little jo jo
israeli guy lol
this is the largest model rocket ever forward
five hundred and sixty tons plots
started buying all ur rainy day one here
hits the parachute sorbent
colossus a success
yes yes yes yes
donut
had content where we are presently but regardless could save lives looks like a
lot to the okay
we're very happy
admitted there dot ok
alike and the most members are waiting impatiently to take off for starters
him
away anyway back when when i was with a small child soon first americans being
shown
we launched john glenn and organized nursing a breakfast
and member of the terrible feeling win missile is a walk-in solution got no
rockin even today
and ever since then i wanna ride that's to blame
for more than half a century the general public passionately part of the space
race between the united states in the soviet union
nineteen fifty seven
the first satellite in orbit
nineteen sixty one the first man in space he'd nineteen sixty-nine the first
steps
program
bharat
read after the collapse of the soviet union space conquests of the back seat
challenger and columbia accidents put a damper on the american space shuttle
program once destined to make several manned orbital round trips every month
five people were energized by the apollo program the early stage
you know they thought they were seen the beginning evolved well all future human
space
and you know we're sort of sour about what happened after apollo it we didn't
see the continuing exploration outward
now people are saying what how can i go back out and you'll capture the glory of
those early days divisional people women working in space
in the nineteen nineties
an american businessman decided to give states conquest
its second win
i realize the spaceships to carry the rest of us into space
didn't exist
so i read about a frenchman renard tate was born in paris moved to new york
and in nineteen ninety you offered a twenty five thousand dollar prize for
the first person to fly between new york in paris
and softball league dot nine different teams
spend a hundred thousand dollars to win this prize or take bribes
that's an amazing wait to cause innovation in breakthroughs
so i created the x_ prize to bring about a new generation of private spaceships
if you carry the rest of us into space
twenty six teams from seven different countries
participated in the x price cup finals
the goal of the competition was to carry out the first entirely private flight
into space without the help of an important space agency
there was only one winner station
in two thousand four the historic flight of his plane rocket paved the way for a
new space
before you know that you're going near indicating a hundred and forty knots or
so
and within ten seconds or eleven seconds you're supersonics a nea three g_s on
your back
instantly analytes
and below that first and second
but the most dynamic fun
dot
when you look out the window and you see the curvature of the earth and you can
see along the edge of the earth is thin blue line that is the atmosphere
and the colors in the textures on the ground
and it so it's a mind-blowing thing to say
me
but i've never seen that before and it really
really was a remarkable experience
it was very much a breakthrough in sort of the mindset that existed up until
then
this basic human spaceflight the very least was a government program that's
something that only governments can do because it was so expensive and so
complicated
here was and very small private venture at that
with one million unpacking
spending twenty five million dollars fateful people's faces
people's perspective to the following
speeches like beasley
but when it came back to test well i just felt
so many people had told me it's
it'll never happen people are going to die why is it matter doing and i said no
this is something we absolutely need we need to allow ourselves to take a risk
to have these dreams come true
we was finally won i dismissed truck but relief
and then i felt happy and then i said what do we do next
a
pin
in the wake of space everyone
an entire generation of entrepreneurs
decided to literally
reach for the start
pioneers set up shop primarily in the desert of the western united states
around california is little more happy report station one was killed
they created a new silicon valley
on their ideas
they hold dream of developing
breed of tourism so before personal space travel
assad orbital flight consists of a brief incursion into space
at an altitude of a hundred kilometers
justice they ship one day
this is much higher than a conventional airplane but still a long ways from the
altitude of the international space station
the market looks like that by ten to fifteen years once these flights are
going you can add fifteen thousand people you're flying
he could have up to a billion dollars a year revenue that's a fairly sizable
market mess enough probably to sustain several companies worldwide providing
the service
about ten different spaceships dedicated to the sub orbitals tourism
are already being built in these angers
the first commercial flights are scheduled for two thousand and ten
one of the leaders of this new market is vittu branson who founded ***
galactic as part of his huge company ***
his future fleet of shuttles
is being built here in great secrecy at the mojave airport
and will consist of five spaceship to lose an improved version of space ship
one
this flights will bead unlike anything
anne about passengers have done before think that
you know it's it's it's impossible to fully prepare for the experience but
that's mainly the the emotional experience
inspire outside the window is going to be changing from being filtered tonight
indigo and violet black and then you've got that incredible contrast doesn't
need to be the rocket motor switches off it is completely silent because you're
in space it is
unit was no motorola
i do is to be in zero gravity
he will have fun around four to five minutes to
to explore zero gravity but importantly to look at windows and we know it
the most of the people to sign up for those only seats this is certainly a
this is the real people into their experience
uh... about two hundred people now who have signed up
they come from think around twenty five countries end
a lot of those people have asked to pay the full two hundred thousand dollars up
front in order to secure one of the first time one hundred seats the average
ages
probably may fifteen so this is the baby boomer generation the kids who grew up
the sixties
having watched holiday
they watch the mainland in sand that parents told them that they would be
going to space
business model is very much like to conserve truism company you have to sell
experience to them
much the same way is if you were going to antarctica for
going on so far enough
climbing mount everest sent
very extreme activity and the success of these companies will have will depend in
large part on how successful the cable relief to sell the experience
while waiting
virginia galactic descended first customers for stars
other entrepreneurs with less capital
developing equally ambitious project
in texas we're going to meet one of these new start-ups takes pride in its
willingness to revolutionize and its own way the methods of the aerospace
industry
like every evening after work
the eight unpaid employees of armadillo aerospace get together to fine-tune
their space engine
known as required
it's basically a set of flying
carried alcohol
limited period
to put a single engine in the middle
which means we can do
fails it's just like trying to balance
defenders
giancana mac is a thirty six-year-old millionaire
it was he who created the video games goldblum in quake which sold several
million copies throughout the world
he founded armadillo six years ago by investing a good part of his personal
fortune
the quietest computer piloted
and mastering the joystick has become a major advantage
what we're trying to do is taken
sort of the methods that you have in software development is buried by
britain
industry where you've got so many people trying so many different things we've
flown
prettier fourteen different vehicles different systems engines control
systems please we're learning as we go trying things finding out some things
are easier than we would have thought some things were harder
this is what really the new space industry is they're trying to beat a new
path in the spirit
rather than simply build the same old big rockets in the go after the same
largely government markets at the figures based companies are going after
they're saying
how can we do things differently you know how what would be for markets we
can go after we're different technologies we can go after
conventional aerospace industry which is tied at the hip witness from the federal
government
can't do things quickly they can things do cheaply
we spent a grand total of about three million dollars i think over the last
five years
which is not
pocket change for her
instance but from nasa
problems that much down the back of the character of the week
here we've achieved some things that they haven't made a huge organization
for six months the entire armadillo team
has been mobilized for one's soul objective
to participate in the next addition
the extract ka
their machines quand will launch a new challenge known as the lunar lander
challenge it's got to make a one hundred meter around trip in front of an
audience
the week to go before the test
a concerted effort is being made
doing now is i'm taking off the bottom land
pieces so we can go ahead and personal installation
this is the real rocket science right we have already charred every noxious
chemical we have a shop
take it off steinbeck
the next morning on the duma members get ready for a final livetext
before the competition
feet
for the moment there is no room for a human passenger in the quad since it's
only a prototype
domino effect
has big plans for
really a fairly high in sophisticated space system
we'll be flying
it is a large step on the way towards either support or space tourism or even
multistage orbital system
it's only a minor modification who do want these to make something good to go
out with a hundred
our next vehicles to look like to at least stacked on top of each other
before engines
so you're looking at the airport under a hundred thousand dollars in cost to
build
that's capable of killing all the way to space
still and Texas were off to meet Rocky
handicapped since the age of seventeen
this talented inventor founded his own company called Spaceminers
recently turned his efforts toward the construction of a new prototype
he is also participating in the next Xprize cup competition
which is only a week away
hey Rocky! hey, how's it going?
what do you got there?
i was wanting to, uh...
unscrew these n clean it all out in there
and make it run a little faster. wow. so they are a little thinner, yeah!
one-and-a-half each
hey, every great
idea was started in a garage
Lockheed?
every great one
Apple computers
Microsoft
they all started in a garage. i started my business in a garage.
he starts his in a garage
garages were meant for inventions! ahehe :)
and uh...
if we didn't have a garage we'd be really hard up! ahehehe! hehehe!
to build his bizarre machine Rocky asked for assistance from Mark
a former aerospace industry engineer
it took a nine hundred hours of work to build its and a great many round trips
to and from the do it yourself shop
this is mister c's hardware in the past two months i've been here almost every day
they don't even ask me for my identification when i write a check
i think they know my driver's license number by heart
i was eight-years-old when the first american astronaut when in to space
and i thought this is really a great thing. but there's no way somebody like me
could ever get near it
now i'm fifty-six
and i do have an opportunity to get near it
i may not go in space with maybe something i've built or something i've
contributed to will go into space
so i'm going to grasp for it
hey Mark how you doin'? Pretty good
you got the parts for the next phase?
yeah
i did most of the designing
Mark, uh...
i left it to him
to do the solar array
because
it's very tedious
and he's very good with tedious stuff
it's a little large for me to handle you know
being in a wheelchair
did i get it backwards Rocky?
i don't know. you made the cheater marks
thanks very much
i think it goes the other way
this happens a lot of people come over the fence wanna know
what's going on
sure, it's a space climber
a space climber
this this is a NASAcompetition. were going to go into space with this thing!
there will be a floodlight placed underneath
the device
these are photo cells
they will turn on the floodlight. you'll take the energy from the beam
to the cells, generate electricity to the motors
which will turn the wheels
the friction wheels and climb this ribbon.
a life-size space elevator will function in the same way
from a platform in the city cable will go up to a geo stationary space station
fuel would no longer be needed since the space elevator would be propelled solely
by a laser beam
this is really rocky string rocky
indigenous might not get out my hammer and my screwdriver and i try to get
shape to it
is eleven kilograms
and i want to get it down to ten kilograms
and at this point i'm going to have to take the weight off one graham at a time
a little bit here a little bit there
but if the principle behind
the special order is uh... to travel and you know to
send cargo
cheaper and safer than
romero
always since i was a kid was afraid that masses
too many explosions even
pound say half a kilogram material in spaceships in ten thousand dollars
concept is successful
it could cost as little is one hundred dollars to put five hundred grams of
material into space
that would make space
assessable too little people small universities to build a satellite pick
it up really sick
captured bring it down
on our site about the concept
or something that uh...
once we have a special there bill
will be a lot of work to do like cleaning up files far orbit
does log minerals out there that uh... we'll come back in your own on our i
think it would be interesting to be able to
from our end
these minerals and and bring them back
decided had a chance to go to space of wood
you know this venture
you know for a for a while
just sitting in his chair all day
this issue is what
working in space i think would be very comfortable
like that a lot
like rocky most of the new space entrepreneurs already see a prominent
human presence among the stars
they envisage a world where people will live and work in space inside quoting
colonies or basis on planets
myspace an envelope one of the new start-ups is positioning itself on the
man station margins
their idea is that once in orbit
they would use empty fuel tanks to make space modules
within five years
of our first launch we will start connecting several of these tanks
together
into what we'll
so will have perhaps twelve of these joined together into something that
looks like a bicycle wheel
is rotating space stations
all hold eventually hundreds and and perhaps even thousands of people
one or two of the twelve tanks that we use
will be set aside as hydroponic sections they can grow food in for the occupants
of the space station
there's been a long term racial orbital factory have been able to manufacture
large semiconductor wafers in weightlessness much more effectively
because of your off ball bearings things like that uh... that would be perfect
sphere is generated in weightlessness
this really use new era
in mankind's history
once human being start moving off the planet large-scale
it's going to change the history of mankind more than even the discovery of
the new world dead
it's going to improve the survivability of mankind because there's always a
chance to something major could hit the earth
the years of reduced activity
nasa has decided to relaunch manned space exploration and is planning on
returning to the moon in two thousand ten to set up a permanent basis there
within this framework the new space entrepreneurs can be of invaluable
assistance
this new space industry experience
five years ago they were there but they were very small and they were not very
coordinated
now they are very coordinated didn't their numbers are growing and their
voices are getting stronger
nasa has started waking up
to the idea that these are people that have welcomed intentions they can
contribute a lot of good ideas
and there's no good reason not to use them
the great question
is how all the rules of the space agency's and then you start out he
shared in the future
there's sort of near french here
that we'd be low-earth orbit
that would primarily be the domain of the private sector what you get beyond
that which is the absolute certainly outsmart somebody on that falls more in
the name of the government because it is very difficult to get out there really
the only market so far for doing that our government lives
wherever
asap
is not in the business of making money
masses in the business of acquiring knowledge through exploration and
science
it's very hard to make money doing science
and so that's why the commercial industry you is not very interested in
it
so that i think there's a
there's the
clean line between the sides of exploration in the commercial
development
will allow both
used to exists together
maybe you see that has two different highways with many grants that go
between them so you can if i send up astronauts and i want to go to the
geology on the moon
but would say you
let's say robert bigelow his
puttin hotel on
baby my geologists will say it is so talent martin knowledge either
exploration so nasa doesn't have to do everything out
nasa doesn't have to do everything in low earth orbit
faced with the emergence of the sub orbital tourist industry in the united
states
european space agency's appear to be sizing up the changes that are taking
place
liquidity push it will be leaving the european projects are mainly in number
there's a new moralist serious budget almost every week who was really for the
most serious among those known and published today
as a kind of partnership between the space agency's and often individuals who
present these initiatives all politicians
season shooting
europe as a number of advantages its aerospace industry as the world's leader
in the area of satellite launchers
thanks to our re-arm scott
the situation for them for developer
french astronaut junkie a and you have any impact
has recently proposed a detailed private engine project
free-for-all move fast as the leading project will be the creation of a
somewhat which will play in which will benefit from the work done in this area
in europe since nineteen eighty-five vision
i'm a son or rather an orphan of the illness based program which was launched
by the c_n_n_ yes the french space agency at the same time as the ariane
five rocket
let's elect a king the studies that have been conducted we have a big
technological head start and canfield in three years developed a plan we want
there's no reason not to carry out this in europe instead of waiting to see an
american rocket plane flying over our content if you're going to look for
quotes from
the man sub orbital vehicle d_e_s_ age in french
cannot be built yet due to a lack of funds
a
the english level also appeared on the commercial flight market are more
advanced
the star case our company based in manchester is already developing a
capsule for future space tourists
but she has a lot for sending was downstairs
gone
damodaran
sumit two days before the extra stuff competition
armadillo aerospace team
is heading for new mexico with its precious cargo
they'll have to cross the entire state of texas a fifteen-hour trip
qualifying rounds for the space elevator games
have begun at last process a few meters from the express cup site
twelve teams are trying to qualify
most of them come from american universities although canadians spanish
and german teams
space miners are champing at the bit
they're only allowed one tryin so it's gotta be right the first time around
using available equipment
the final touches are carried out
i discovered that when we mountain climber
needs to make sure that it doesn't move at all
so like right through animate a little block still think here
but then i still didn't have a spring
so rocky says why don't you use your ballpoint pics
this is my returns
which was to try it
i'm a nervous wreck
some extremely stressful and i think in a moment i'll just follow the ground
instructions
stumbling all set
is relaxed
growing old saying we can't get too excited
remember that i told you that i was going to remove weight one bremen
let's say this just for you
this is how i did it
this is not what we did
all of these wholefoods drilled here
in a few more that you can see
we took off connected with mediators and actually increases the water
whose every gram counts
we find ten with the organizers and for a good reason
the technologies invented here can be put to good use finances
and it's a long-awaited return to the moon
for example if we decide to put a nuclear power source
some white part someplace far away from people and where the people are working
we might see getting crater somewhere that's far away now we need to get that
followed from that crater to the robot into those have attached
so if you want to be in that power
whether sources
to wear the v_ to use it
the same sort of technologies that were just demonstrating here that the power
competition
will use on the move
for example
to earn the right to participate in the extras cup competition
you have to prove that your prototype can ascend and descend in a fluid manner
five teams have already qualified
space minors
have faith in their lucky stars
geared here's our payload
about cap with one of our sponsors and our sponsors business cards and he
didn't sponsor it you'll get to go out
on the capitalist
product
i'm hungry
warlord
recall of our goal
not what's your
they want to be open space florida
big adept reading
marky mark of the last one is to go
well then the stakes are really high
there are four hundred thousand dollars to be one
political
toast
the prototype get stopped halfway through
impossible to started up again
will this fifty percent success be enough to qualify
win came up it was shaking climber
and i couldn't make the last minute adjustment so it went up about thirty
feet and stuck
we didn't win but we got to try
and we got a climber eliminated climbing i'm very happy i got a chance to try
you know that's what america's about
you know you get the opportunities
houses
marquai
in
davis finally here
p_x_ price competition is open for public viewing
really the grand prix of states the america's cup of space
we have two point four million dollars of prize money this year every year the
prizes will probably get larger and larger
want to create an event
from around the world travel very october
meet the astronauts meet engineers touch the rockets maybe buy a ticket to go to
space
you
heat-related
and that that
ever started and they are not an accurate on that
that back
programming
after arriving safe and sound from its journey through texas the armadillo
quant takes center stage
of the moon and the challenge begins in an hour while waiting the public admires
these futuristic machines
misses the mark one x_-ray series unveiled today it's called under hog
uh... it is a fifteen hundred pound liquid oxygen cry reject bragging and
kerosene engine in eighteen feet long it was a fifteen-foot
great orangeville flavor that
shed it is a huge margins baseboards
rocket racing league is very much like former one winds died because they
didn't money have by the bravery
that restraint
soviet navy's verges on the side
single-engine
rocket flames and fighting for
ever since i was
marian boy it dreamt of flying a rocket a buck rogers saurabh flash gordon
rocket out into space and and we haven't got their and we won't get their unless
we do it ourselves the government is going to do it for us so we need to find
u_n_ innovative solutions to the parallel could be made towards the early
days of aviation wendell ariel was flowing trustees channel
there's all this
the public has also come to reproduce this shows that takes place above their
heads
al
una
had
now
yes price from beijing
britain water point exploited
we can also see some of the more original interest
sentinel and they like a lot of palermo roster professional women
they also allow us to take off
actually solve frosting how close we are deco
without our largest president response because is inspired a harsh louisville's
brochure very challenging and very dangerous activities
there were also a blizzard the door to the greater fully intends here when they
here's the resources used created office bottom as well as i was on
the public's confidence excited see around the clock
the lunar lander challenges only a few minutes away now
giancana agar multimillionaire c_e_o_ is the star of the day the pressure is even
greater since his team will be all alone armadillo has just learned that the
other contestants after winning the towel
judges signal the start
spent two-and-a-half hours the quant has to make a roundtrip of about a hundred
meters street requires great technical problems
considering that this is the first flight on the real life conditions yet
okay
expanded and the departmental team is with the last the rage
administered
danny's office
yet because of a very shaky landing tomtom expired cannot make the return
trip
as the armadillo gets ready for another attempt
the spectators rush over to unshaken sorry this american billionaire has just
spent a week at the international space station
she's the fourth space tourist industry
org
i think that this ends up floating in space and that they don't like
that said you know experiencing weightlessness something i would stay
with me but i have a and also just be able to see you know it's not marked the
exhibition that i'd always stays in my heart and i says close my eyes and tried
to imagine i'm back on the space station and i can't wait to be able to do
anything
harmless
where we need more eight have a senate from young people and
that graham day happy to see in a successful entrepreneurs here u_s_ have
started putting their money in the states in the same that shows to me that
they believe the three days in space and i can't say that deal with them
armadillo was ready to try it one last time to win the lunar lander challenge
the stakes for the small team of volunteers in addition to glory
is two point five million dollars and dozens of future contracts
we've got first building up and
barlow
books like they lost their
anywhere in the middle of the charity was
happening
in spite of peter's encouragements the plot does not get up again
it's all over for this year
no one wins the competition but the adventure lines any attempts a that
hitting the ball you know what works and the only one who had died horrible young
woman who is our diet is a birmingham
home now
desecrated recidivism
angered the tanks already we started all of them and that's only an experimental
novellas next time we'll be getting the most expensive running around the world
susan
has certainly disappointed at a bill
everybody here is going around congratulating me telling our office in
the flight was by died
my wife's data for out of it when we get back if i can win the prize attendant we
are seeing the first steps of a new industry we're seeing
companies that are spending
no literally pennies on the dollar
uh... compared to the large aerospace companies building rocket ships
these vehicles that we saw up excellent excellent more mathilde not toys their
real stations
it's just a tiny step to go ahead say well we stacking make a modular
and we've got a commercial deal vehicle with michael redundancy in all this is
not that are often lead to more generations of something
we'll close
the expires compass proved once again that we have been to the new space era
effects of which will soon be felt by the general public
certainly five years from now i think for housing corporal space tourism
industry
will have
you know one or more companies out there carried pastors of several space flights
you'll see companies start to evolve into looking for sorrel space flight
five years from now so that perhaps ten years now and we have to give the
proverbial overall space tourism
commercial industry gets out into other states
and they can stay there because they develop a commercial engine they're
making money and they can invest in their company making growth
then that will create what we call sustainability we really want
exploration in space to be sustainable
and
but
for a visit to a vote human presence beyond our planet
space pioneers must demonstrate that they are capable of sending
at a reasonable cost
the adventure for us please cowboys