The First Privately Funded Launch Vehicles - Conestoga & Percheron

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Privately developed launch vehicles are not a recent development, back in the early 1980's private investors developed the Conestoga launch vehicle, however after overcoming technical and legal problems the company was unsuccessful in the launch business but a spin off still operates under the guise of Celestis.

Celestis
https://www.celestis.com/

Space Studies Institute
http://ssi.org/

Some great photos of Percheron
https://www.flickr.com/photos/stevefrancis/sets/72157629324639570/

Wikipedia page on the Conestoga
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conestoga_(rocket)



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