The Venture Edge

Emerging industries are the Wild West of the 21st Century, and nowhere are things wilder than in the emerging private space enterprise industry. Driven by entrepreneurs, many of whom put their own wealth from successful Internet ventures into their new space companies, it's the natural venue for the search for opportunity where no one has gone before.  In this case, the opportunity is to make space transportation better, faster, and cheaper; and at least one famous entrepreneur, Elon Musk, secured a big win with the successful launch of Falcon 9 last Friday.