Orbital Space Junk Will Make Private Space Travel From Firms Like SpaceX Impossible

In previous weeks, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's company Stratolaunch Systems unveiled its plan to launch rockets into space using a specially-designed airplane by 2016. This comes on the heels of news that SpaceX's Dragon capsule will be the first privately-made module to dock with the International Space Station and Virgin Galactic's plans to start launching into space as soon as next year. More

(Source: PolicyMic - Jan 5)