Benson Space Company was a civilian spaceflight venture founded on September 28, 2006 by James William Benson, who had previously chaired the aerospace company SpaceDev. It aimed to offer low-cost suborbital astronaut flights to the public by purchasing Dream Chaser spacecraft from SpaceDev and flying them with hybrid rocket motors, positioning itself to be first to market in the emerging space tourism industry. Benson's diagnosis with a brain tumor in spring 2008 and his death that October led to the company's dissolution before it flew any missions. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Benson Space Company
Jim Benson announced on September 28, 2006 that he had launched an ambitious new venture
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James William Benson (April 3, 1945, October 10, 2008) was an American aerospace entrepreneur who founded SpaceDev, a commercial satellite and satellite component development company, and the Benson Space Company, a civilian spaceflight venture focused on commercial space tourism.
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