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The Race to Space: part two

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

By Dwane Brown and KPBS Public Broadcasting

Audio

Aired 4/19/09

Imagine if you will a hotel in space, and a map from NASA to get you there. An American entrepreneur who dreams of some day building a commercial space station has already launched a proto-type and NASA does have a superhighway map of space. In part two of our three-part series on the race to Space, KPBS Morning Anchor Dwane Brown talks with longtime Space writer David Leonard about efforts by private companies to get consumers off the ground and into orbit. (click "listen" icon to hear the story)

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