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When Dale Skran drives by the airport near his New Jersey home, he can’t help but notice the “conga line of planes” taking off and landing: “It’s just zoom, zoom, zoom,” he said. “Every few minutes a big jet lands and there’s multiple runways.”
A leader at the National Space Society, Skran sees a similar future for space travel.
There were 148 licensed commercial space operations in fiscal 2024; that’s about one launch every two-and-a-half days, a more than 900 percent increase over a decade, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
But to continue leading in space, the United States needs to move