On Comparative Analysis of the Commercial Human Spaceflight Landscape in the Leading Space Powers
- Paper number
IAC-14,B3,2,12,x21768
- Author
Dr. Dmitry Payson, Skolkovo Foundation, Russian Federation
- Year
2014
- Abstract
The paper discusses the impact of the space industry's organizational heritage and national economy development trajectory at the commercial human spaceflight development. The factors are identified that have defined the obvious focus shifting from the early space tourism effort monopolized by the Russian Soyuz/ISS taxi missions towards the current emerging of the ‘Western’ pretenders’ fleet. The technology and structural issues are comparatively analyzed that define the fundamentally differing landscape in the leading space powers with human space capabilities. A brief review is provided of the current Russian efforts at the early life cycle phases as well as the role of the private investors and development institutions.
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