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posted by [personal profile] feuervogel at 03:53pm on 10/04/2010
What if we assume that space flight ends up being primarily driven by private enterprise (Sir Richard Branson, that Bigelow fellow) rather than governmental agencies? Given the current trajectory, I think that's not a poor assumption to make.

How would that change the projected demographics of space? Would it at all? I'm assuming (for example) it would be possible for any private industrialist to get the VC they need to get at least the design & engineering off the ground. There's the Ansari X prize, too.

(In the future space colony universe I'm building, I started with this assumption; also that capitalists looking for resources to exploit in space (asteroid mining, say) would sign on for a joint venture.)
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posted by [personal profile] boundbooks at 07:32pm on 12/04/2010
That's a really interesting take, I don't have any numbers, but I bet a good place to look would be race/nation of origin statistics for science graduate programs in countries with space-oriented private enterprises. For example, assuming US-driven enterprise, perhaps take a look at enrollment statistics for graduate students in engineering, math, physics? Possibly toss that out to England/Australia/India if one is looking for areas with high English fluency?
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