AW_20100104_cover.jpgPerson Of The Year: The Space Entrepreneur … features Dave Masten and Xoie!

Aviation Week’s article starts out:

The quiet work of space entrepreneurs is becoming reality, and metal and fire are streaking through the upper atmosphere into low Earth orbit. (Photo: Chad Slattery)….

Working quietly in the background since the days of viewgraphs, a group of space entrepreneurs has long been pitching far-fetched ideas to skeptical moneymen with the fervor of evangelists. Now their viewgraphs—updated to Powerpoint and CAD/CAM—are becoming reality, and metal and fire are streaking through the upper atmosphere into low Earth orbit.

While not mentioning E.R.P.S. by name, amateur liquid fuel rocketry is talked about as where he got started in space development until “… it got to the point with these projects where I couldn’t do it all on weekends and evenings anymore.”

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