Space possibilities for our grandchildren - Current and future economic uses of space

For too long, space has been dismissed as a science endeavour at best, and a delusionary science fiction fantasy at worst. In this paper, we make three fundamental points. First, with strong commercial activity taking place in Low Earth Orbit since the late 1980s, space already today is a market-place and therefore responds predominantly to economic incentives. Second, launch costs have been on a

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