Rand Simberg wrote:
On 28 Nov 2005 11:18:34 -0800, in a place far, far away, "Tom Cuddihy"
made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a
way as to indicate that:

It's more worrisome to me that Musk didn't put a bigger LOX generator
on Kwajalein to begin with. This is where they're supposedly going to
launch their Falcon 9s from, which will require 10 times as much LOX
--wouldn't it make more sense to build it up from the very beginning?
Makes me wonder if Musk is hedging on the bigger launcher development
now.

He probably is, since he says that he intends to go out and look for
investment for it early next year.

The other thing I notice is that, although the available pics and
models of Falcon 1 have always shown the fuel line from the first stage
fuel tank to the engines, neither Falcon 5 or 9 pics and models show
that detail, which means either its (a) internal -- meaning more
complexity, structural difficulties, etc, or (b) that detail hasn't
been decided yet(!) which seems like a big one to omit on a
multi-engine stage.