Private industry gazing at stars/ Beggs: Government controls block expansion From: Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph | Date: April 6, 1989| Author: | Copyright (null) Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Private industry is itching to expand its business activities into space, but government policies may determine whether U.S. companies are welcome there.

"The market out 20 years (from now) will be large and it will be growing - we're looking at multi-billion dollar opportunities," said former-NASA Administrator James Beggs, one of several space industry figures who spoke Wednesday at the fifth National Space Symposium, under way this week at The Broadmoor hotel.

Beggs, who was NASA administrator from 1981 to 1985, is now the chairman of Spacehab Inc., a Seattle company that has ...