Opinion: Spacehab Was The Beginning Of Commercial Space
On June 21, 1993, NASA’s space shuttle Endeavour launched on the STS-57 mission from the Kennedy Space Center carrying the commercially developed Spacehab module, a pressurized laboratory designed to more than double pressurized workspace for crew-tended experiments.
Credit: NASA
Forty years ago, a quirky entrepreneur named Bob Citron arrived at the offices of The Center for Space Policy (now CSP Associates) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a novel business proposal to fly space tourists in a passenger module inside the cargo bay of a NASA space shuttle. The U.S. had issued...
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