<p>what is the future outlook for the private aerospace industry, mostly space exploration (lie spacex)</p>
<p>how did these people (the owner/founders) of these private companies go about to achieving this</p>
<p>do you have to already have tons of money from other sources or is there some other way</p>
<p>thanks</p>
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<p>I’d say with that sort of thing it’d be very important to go to a school known for ambitious entrepreneurs, because even if you’re not founding a company you’ll be needing to connect with the people that do.</p>
<p>Elon Musk (founder of spaceX) came up with Paypal, so yeah he had quite a bit of money before he got into the Aerospace business. Just an FYI, SpaceX doesn’t do space exploration as far as I know. Most of their buzz has been centered on their Falcon rockets to deliver satellites to LEO.</p>
<p>chuy,
what kind of colleges would that be?</p>
<p>and gthopeful,
yeah I knew Musk had money beforehand so I was trying to think of another to get something like that started</p>
<p>maybe if you did some kind of breakthrough research in the field that could be marketed, could you get $ through that to start a company</p>
<p>and also, if spacex is mostly about that, what companies sthat are similar foucs a bit more on exploration
i know that it is a long-term goal of spacex, but I get your point</p>
<p>thanks everyone</p>
<p>Burt Rutan</p>
<p>President, Scaled Composites, pioneering designer of the private spacecraft SpaceShipOne, winner of the $10 million Ansari X-prize for its historic 2004 flights into orbit and back again; designer of Voyager, the first aircraft to fly around the world without stopping or refueling.</p>
<p>Cal Poly SLO 1965 Aero Engr</p>
<p>thanks you
any other examples?
or ideas?
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