Got $25,000? Then You Can Build a Satellite -- and a SpaceX Cofounder Will Help You Launch It

Fine print: Shipping and handling is extra. About $2 million extra. America's new-space industry is suffocating -- but that's OK. Vector Space Systems is here to save it. A few days ago, I had the opportunity to talk over the future of spaceflight with Jim Cantrell, the original rocket scientist at Elon Musk's SpaceX . Cantrell has been working in the space industry for nigh on 30 years now, and for organizations as varied as StratSpace (a business development company assisting "new-space" start-ups), CNES (France's version of NASA), NASA (our version of NASA), and SpaceX itself. More

(Source: Fool.com - May 23)