Title: Star Wars: The Battle to Build the Next Shuttle Source:
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May 5 (Bloomberg) --- Bloomberg's "The Next Space Race" is a journey through the booming business of space exploration. The International Space Station is a near zero-gravity laboratory dedicated to scientific research. The end of NASA's shuttle program in 2011 left the world with only one way to get there, buy a seat from the Russians. NASA is holding a competition challenging private enterprise to build America's next spacecraft. Boeing, SpaceX, and Sierra Nevada are all multi-billion dollar aerospace companies competing to win the NASA contract that could cement dominance in the emerging space industry. Bloomberg gets rare access to these space pioneers, including a tour of SpaceX with CEO Elon Musk. (Source: Bloomberg)
I would design a vehicle to be launched on a fast moving sled from inside a man made tunnel in a Colorado mountain at an altitude over 10,000 feet. Most of your fuel is spent getting above ten thousand feet and gaining that first few hundred miles per hour in speed.