Building America's "Astral Highway" to open the Earth-Moon system to American spacefaring business development

In U.S. Astrologistics newsletter #1, I introduced using the cargo version of the Space Launch System—rebranded as America's "Spacelifter"—to build astrologistics infrastructure.

Newsletter #1 - Spacelifter: Turning the Space Launch System into a strong positive for America

The video shown in that newsletter is also available for viewing on the Spacefaring Institute LLC YouTube channel.

America's Spacelifter — Using the SLS cargo version to build America's astrologistics infrastructure

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In this newsletter I introduce a second video that explains how building a national astrologistics infrastructure—referred to as America's "Astral Highway"—will enable American spacefaring businesses to "set up shop" in space.

Here is the description of this new video:

For generations, Americans have dreamed of space travel becoming commonplace, but this vision remains unfulfilled due to a lack of the astrologistics infrastructure needed to enable practicable commercial human spacefaring operations. To transform America into a true human spacefaring nation, the Federal Government needs to lead in building a robust national astrologistics infrastructure. This involves creating a network of spaceways throughout the Earth-Moon system, referred to as “America’s Astral Highway, that will enable robust and profitable American spacefaring business development. The government should begin with building space bases and space habitats in low Earth orbit to provide locations for businesses to set up shop and to encourage the development of operationally safe commercial passenger spaceflight services.

Key points of this video

• America's shared "spacefaring dream" has yet to be realized as America lacks the ability to "do business" in space.
• What is holding America back is that American spacefaring businesses lack the ability to "set up shop" in outer space—the habitable space in which to locate and operate their businesses.
• Throughout its history, the Federal Government has taken a leading role in building the logistics infrastructure to enable American commerce.
• Using the cargo version of the Space Launch System—America's Spacelifter—revolutionary astrologistics capabilities can now be built in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to enable business development.
• As new LEO space bases and space habitats begin to be built, American passenger spaceflight enterprises will have the "market demand" needed to invest in developing airworthiness-certified true passenger spaceflight services to, from, and throughout the Earth-Moon system.
• These operationally safe passenger spaceflight services will then enable America space commerce to grow from today's robotic operations (e.g., communications) to true commercial human spacefaring operations.
• The only thing holding America back NOW is the willingness to Make America Great in Space; America now has everything needed to get underway building America's true human spacefaring future.

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Mike Snead, PE

President, Spacefaring Institute LLC

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