Top Ten Private Spaceships

By Margret
  • #3 SpaceX Dragon

    #3 SpaceX Dragon
    The dragon is more of a capsule than a rocket ship, and is designed to be a cargo capsule. People have been working very hard on it and think they might be able to put it to test with humans.
  • #1 Stratolaunch Air-Launched Rocket

    #1 Stratolaunch Air-Launched Rocket
    The Stratolaunch rocket has a suprising wingspan of 385 meters! it's first official launch will be in 2016, but the test launch will be in 2015. Paul Allen and Burt Rutan have teamed up and founded Stratolaunch Systems, and this is one of their designs.
  • #4 Bingelow Aerospace Private Space Stations

    #4 Bingelow Aerospace Private Space Stations
    They are currently working on the real things though two testers have already been sent into orbit in 2006 and 2007. their company has already teamed up with SpaceX and Boeing, whose rockets will ferry people up to and from the space stations.
  • #9 Armadillo Aerospace's "Stig"

    #9 Armadillo Aerospace's "Stig"
    The Stig space vehicle was launched quite a while ago. It was a very succesful launch s well. This was Aemadillo Aerospace's (love the name) first commercial launch.
  • #8 Boieng Aerospace CST-100

    #8 Boieng Aerospace CST-100
    This peculiar vehicleis designed to take astronaughts to and from sattalites and space stations. and looks to me like a fairly comfortable space (pun not intended). Wouldn't it be cool to fly in this one? I couldn't find a date for this one.
  • #2 XCOR Aerospace Lynx

    #2 XCOR Aerospace Lynx
    The Aerospace Lynx is a two seated suborbital space flight system. It costs 95 000$ to get a seat on one of these suckers! This rocket can take off and land on a simple airport runway. The Lynx is expensive but realyy cool.
  • #7 Virgin Galactic's SpaceShip Two

    #7 Virgin Galactic's SpaceShip Two
    SpaceShip Two is mostly tourist aimed ship. There are around 500 people willing to pay 50 00$ for one out of six seats on it. Although they do give rides to researcher and scientists.
  • #10 The ATK Liberty Launch System

    #10 The ATK Liberty Launch System
    The company has been working on this since February, 2011, and say they need untill 2015 to finish it, but this is just and estimate. I hope you had a good time viewing this timeline of mine. Bye!
  • #5 Blue Origin's Space Capsule

    #5 Blue Origin's Space Capsule
    The space capsule is supposed to be done in 2016, but it is still to early to tell. This is Blue Origin's first space vehicle in the biz. Let's hope it turns out good.
  • #6 Sierra Nevada Dream Chaser

    #6 Sierra Nevada Dream Chaser
    The "Dream Chaser" is based on a idea of the 80's by NASA to have a space plane launched of a full sized rocket and land on a normal airport runway. This plane doesn't have a specific mission other than commercial flying. I couln't find any exact dates put people say it will be ready by 2016