Spaceports
Back to the Future?
26 May 2012, 17:14 UTC
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The success of SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft marks a new commercial space era this week enabling many young Americans to dream again of lunar exploration, moon bases, and the extraction of lunar minerals. While Mars and the asteroids will be among the sites targeted by the civil space agencies around the Earth, the moon will become much more a target for American private business development with humans in the decade ahead, along with the Chinese and Russians.