Joe Latrell, CEO of Beyond-Earth Enterprises, returned to The Space Show to provide us with new information about his company and rocket flights. We started the program discussing Beyond-Earth's move from Colorado to Roswell, NM and the business environment for his rocket company in Roswell. Joe then brought us up to date on his launches, customers, payloads and more. He put forth the scenario that one should closely examine the incremental growth and development progress of a company as it strives to meet its goals and milestones as this incremental progress can determine the quality of the business and its operations. Joe then explained how Beyond-Earth Enterprises (B-EE) was making progress toward its near term goal of launching a payload of up to 50 lbs. to approximately 70 statute miles. He said the engineering, hardware, all of everything they need is now ready to do this but having a launch site is not yet a certainty. This took our interview into a discussion of Spaceport America which is to be built in southern New Mexico, the amateur launch site in Black Rock, NV, the Oklahoma Spaceport and other possible locations. Joe's comments about the need for a spaceport to complete his mission plan was an eye opener and showed us the political side of spaceport issues, not just the technical, environmental, or economic side of the issues. Joe had provided a few discussion points for this show which included issues of balancing customer privacy with company PR which we discussed in detail. Don't miss this discussion. We also talked about New Space (alt.space) company website claims and the rhetoric not matching reality. We asked Joe about this and how a company should go about balancing the talk and the claims with reality. Again, don't miss this discussion. We then talked about the press, the definition of space, suborbital space, orbital flight, etc. Again, you must hear this discussion. Many listeners participated in this program and Joe fielded some very difficult and challenging questions. One set of listener questions asked Joe about his B-EE timeline for space development which is on his website and the likelihood of B-EE to meet or come close to the target dates/deadlines. You can continue to send your questions or comments to Joe Latrell. Visit his website, www.beyond-earth.com and then click on contact to send Joe an email. Here is the specific e-mail link: www.beyond-earth.com/company/contact.shtml. As always, you can send your comments and questions to me at drspace@thespaceshow.com and I will forward them to Joe.
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