Beyond Rockets: A New Technology

When Burt Rutan's team won the X-Prize competition in 2004, it raised serious questions about the future of space travel. Rutan's skill and ability in aerospace engineering led him to victory by placing the first private vehicle in space -- but that vehicle was a rocket, and rocket's aren't going to take us where we need to go. Antigravity technology is the future -- not only in fulfilling mankind's dream of an inexpensive, reusable tool for getting into space, but also for solving the more mundane problems of traffic congestion and urban sprawl. Our goal is building technologes to solve the challenges of both today's transportation economy and tomorrow's dreams -- and multimillion dollar rocket endeavors aren't the solution. Antigravity opens a new door to the future -- making a journey into space as accessible to the public as a trip to the grocery store.

American Antigravity is a firm supporter of the breakthrough work in rocketry from both NASA and the X-Prize teams, but we're also realistic about the limits of what rockets can achieve. In order to make space accessible for the common man, we're building collaboration with government, industry, and an enormous grassroots effort to find and develop neXt generation technologies.

"Antigravity solves today's transportation problems and the space challenges of tomorrow. We're talking about real, demonstrable technologies built by innovators all over the globe."

American Antigravity's focus is on building collaboration, and putting in place a community infrastructure to support the dedicated efforts of innovators in the field of Antigravity research & breakthrough space technology.

Building Concensus

The first challenge to building the Antigravity technologies of tomorrow isn't the technology -- it's the culture. Over the course of the 20th century, several new and emerging areas of aerospace science and physics have laid the foundation for Antigravity technology, but the consistent failure in achieving success has been the result of limitations in the mentality and organizational cultures that have pursued it.

Traditional research and development for breakthrough technologies comes from a 3-tier system: Government support, corporate R&D funding, and University research. However, in the case of Antigravity technology these traditional venues have proven ineffective in being able to develop promising technologies, mostly because the task requires a diverse skillset that none of these groups possess on their own.

The real key to American Antigravity's success is in uniting elements from all three of these groups in a non-profit format with support and participation from the general public. We're already a leader in our news coverage of breakthrough Antigravity research -- we're planning to take that success to a new level by working with industry experts to fund key experiments to begin commercial level development for Antigravity technologies.

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