Commercial Applications I ve temporarily removed this for gross inaccuracy 14 51 2005 Apr 26 UTC At present the commercial market for rockets is limited to deployment of satellites orbital or testing of microgravity equipment suborbital These rockets range from the relatively small 20 ft amateur class to the incredibly large Delta IV and Atlas V rockets made by Boeing and Lockheed Martin respectively of course this is quite wrong rockets can be bought over the counter fireworks there are rockets used for military purposes etc etc 14 51 2005 Apr 26 UTC In addition to satellite servicing and microgravity time a new commercial market dubbed as space tourism may emerge in the next 5 10 years These rockets will carry paying passengers on short suborbital joyrides the space tourism market is already there it s just not very high volume and it s not limited to suborbital 14 51 2005 Apr 26 UTC All rockets that are not classified as amateur must be licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration s Office of Commercial Space Transportation FAA AST located in Washington DC um no That s only true for America and not even there For example XCOR didn t need to talk to these guys when they built their EZ rocket plane and NASA doesn t need to talk to them and neither do the existing launchers