Alt.space

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The term alt.space refers to a community of relatively new aerospace companies working to develop low cost access to space or spaceflight technologies, and low cost spaceflight technical and policy advocates. Some people are instead using the term New Space.

The Ansari X-Prize won by Burt Rutan's Spaceship One vehicle is considered by many^{[attribution needed]} to be an alt.space category event.

Contents 1 Some alt.space companies 1.1 Active 1.2 Organizations 1.3 Events 1.4 Defunct 2 Regulation 3 External links

[edit] Some alt.space companies

The following are companies and organizations generally regarded as both alt.space and successfully active (or previously successfully active).

[edit] Active

• Armadillo Aerospace
• Bigelow Aerospace
• Blue Origin
• Masten Space Systems
• Rocketplane Kistler
• Scaled Composites
• SpaceDev
• SpaceX
• T/Space
• Virgin Galactic
• XCOR Aerospace

[edit] Organizations

• Space Access Society
• Space Frontier Foundation

[edit] Events

• Ansari X-Prize
• X Prize Cup competition

[edit] Defunct

• Rotary Rocket

[edit] Regulation

Much of the alt.space activity is now involved in government licensing activities and regulation development for proposed spaceflights, managed by the Federal Aviation Administration

[edit] External links

• Office of the Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation.