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Posted on: Feb. 10th, 2006 - www.aero-news.net

Commercial space craft could be cleared to carry passengers by 2008, according to SecTrans Norman Mineta. Speaking to a group of space entrepreneurs, the Secretary said that a number of companies should be set to take passengers into space and that the U.S. Department of Transportation would be ready to clear these flights within two years.

“This timeline isn’t based on science fiction,” Secretary Mineta said. “It is a timeline based on the reality of where commercial space is today and where we expect the state of commercial space to be within two short years.”

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