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The lift off of another revolution SpaceShipOne, Burt Rutan, Paul Allen and now Sir Richard Branson. Left to right: John Carmack, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Jim Benson Opening up beyond NASA, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin: There is a new industry about to emerge and small business owners who've made a billion dollars (and even more) are leading the way. Now, all we need are those who can give us a grand unifed theory and some control of gravity. And, where are those researching the most speculative notions like Zero Point energies? These and a dozen other radically new sciences seem ready to unfold; and if they do, it will change everything. Prior homepage Grow your business... First principles... of life - A simple starting point of Enterprise - Trust & integrity of Small Businesses "If I don't do this, my life will be incomplete..." of this show - “Made possible by...” Going beyond the din of imagination Speculative Visionairies of Outer Space Burt Rutan, SpaceShipOne of Scaled Composties, LLC, Mojave, California. Rutan won the Ansari X-Prize on October 4, 2004. Paul Allen (Microsoft co-founder) backed the project. Richard Branson (Virgin Airlines) is now vested at $250M. Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin, Van Horn, Texas. Bezos has built and tested a prototype that looks a little like the SpaceX design. Bezos is the founder of Amazon.com John Carmack, Armadillo Aerospace, Dallas, Texas. Carmack's group has been test-firing the rockets he anticipates will power spacecraft to the moon and back. Carmack is co-creator of Doom and Quake. Elon Musk, SpaceX, El Segundo, California and McGregor, Texas. Musk is under contract with NASA to build robotically-controlled payload to move people and cargo to the International Space Station (ISS). Musk is also chairman of Tesla Motors and SolarCity, and co-founder of PayPal. Jim Benson, founder, SpaceDev, Inc., and now Benson Space Company, Poway, California. Benson and companies are commited to commercializng space by creating a personal spaceflight market. Benson was the founder of Compusearch. George French III of Rocketplane Inc. works with Bigelow Aerospace to provide the transportation to Robert T. Bigelows orbiting commercial space complex (CSC) (still in planning stages). Significant others: Peter Diamandis, co-founder of the X Prize Foundation, and Anousheh Ansari and her family of the Ansari X Prize of $10M. Andy Pasztor of the Wall Street Journal has written about this entreprenurial race for suborbital to orbital space. Cathy Booth Thomas, Dallas Bureau chief, Time Magazine also reports in. Prime time to Watch TV On the Air » Overview of broadcasts / The Next!