Commercial Space Exploration Must Continue, Despite Recent Setbacks

NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. - June 30, 2015 - PRLog -- Though the cause of this past weekend’s failed SpaceX resupply mission to the International Space Station is still under investigation, industry experts caution that this most recent setback must not inhibit continued research and investment into space exploration. “While Sunday's SpaceX accident was disappointing, programs such as commercial cargo not only will continue, but must continue,” says G. Scott Hubbard, Editor-in-Chief of New Space(http://www.liebertpub.com/space), a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers, and Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University.

According to Professor Hubbard, failed missions can be a jumping-off point for continued research and evaluation. “As with early aviation, space travel will become safer, more routine, and more affordable as flight experience is gained. In the long term, space exploration and utilization can only develop if launch services are affordable.”

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