Many of this names will be dropped before the twenty years it is going to take to become reality, ...
The Virgin crash may have set it back a number of years .......long term hold folks
This, and more, on 1 page! Jeesh. Stop before you hurt yourself.
1). The Virgin crash actually lead to more people buying ($200K) tickets, and had no cancellations/refunds.
2). Compared to long delays after a Gov rocket crash with a fatality, Private space firms like Virgin often double down, and increase investment, after an incident -which is what's happening.
3). The crash does not impact the vast majority of space launches, which are unmanned. Unmanned space missions are kicking ass Right Now! ... from ESA's comet landing, to India's Mars Mission, China's Moon Mission (about to launch), etc. etc. in addition to all the Space startup's
In a nutshell, the Space Industry does about $256 Billion a year Now, much of that comes from satellites... of which there have been about 2,700 Sats put in orbit in the last 50 years. That 2,700 figure... is the same number of satellites projected to be launched into service in the next 8 to ten years.
Also, while (Virgin's) manned space flight will often dev at a slower, safer, rate... New, (SpaceX) unmanned developments, can move things ahead at warp speed.
SpaceX Is Entering The Micro-Satellites Game
(I have DataSats.com and DataSatellites.com, and more, so the 'long wait' just had a quantum flux.
Besides, the time from proposal to launch, in the Space Industry, actually defines the prime marketing window... where you sell your tickets, raise funds, or sell the names... on the Promise of Tomorrow!
And, finally, as you seem to be focused on slandering Space Tourism... and the time you feel it will take for that industry to 'take off', ... consider that thousands of people are paying $150 a year, right now, to go on guided, and self-guided, space tours through
Slooh.com - where members use Live, remote control, of Observatory Telescopes to tour space and explore cosmic events.
