Neat little rankings of the commercial space race going on right now. No big surprise in the top two: Ranking the Players In the Private Race to Space
They show them in a neat little gallery, but if you just want the quick list here it is.
- Virgin Galactic
- SpaceX
- Orbital Sciences Corporation
- Scaled Composites (How is this different than Virgin Galactic)
- Masten Space Systems
- Armadillo Aerospace
- Planetary Society
- Bigelow Aerospace
- XCOR Aerospace
- Blue Origin (Jeff Bezos)
- Ad Astra Rocket Co.
- Interorbital Systems
- ARCA
- Da Vinci Project / The Dreamspace Group
- Space Adventures
My opinion is Number 4 is a repeat of Number 1 and once you get down to number 10 the quality of companies drops off a bit. Also can Space Adventures really be on this list, it is really just a travel agency…