Civil, defense and commercial launch vehicle providers have huge opportunities to create the infrastructure required for travel by humans further into space in the coming years, officials from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the U.S. Space Force and private companies such as Voyager Space said at the ASCEND conference at the Caesars Forum convention center in Las Vegas on Nov. 15.
ASCEND is an annual gathering sponsored by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, a professional society of aerospace engineers.