Jim Benson shot to fame when SpaceShipOne made its record-breaking, privately funded flight last year; he is the founder of SpaceDev, the company that supplied the craft's engines. Mark Peplow talks to him about the future of commercial space flight.
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Peplow, M. Making space for small businesses. Nature (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/news050905-3
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