Sprague Astronautics Company, Inc
Sprague Astronautics Company, Inc, is a prospective space tourism company that is the designer and manufacturer of the Altairis suborbital spacecraft. The Altairis, SACI's first generation suborbital spacecraft, is vertically launched, lands horizontally and can send seven passengers to space. The First Flight was originally scheduled for 2006, however this has slipped to late-20081.
While the company has been highly secretive regarding its internal activities, some sources outside the company claim that the design of the Altairis was begun in the late 1990s, and that SACI has completed significant hardware testing.
See also
- Private spaceflight
- Virgin Galactic - Space tourism company started by Richard Branson and Scaled Composites
- Rocketplane Limited, Inc. - Space tourism company funded by George French
- SpaceX - Space tourism company funded by Elon Musk, co-founder of PayPal
- Blue Origin - Space tourism company funded by Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com
- Armadillo Aerospace - Space tourism by John Carmack, creator of Doom and Quake
- List of private spaceflight companies - A compiled list of private spaceflight companies