On 2 Apr 2006 09:44:45 -0700, "Ed Kyle" wrote:

Rand Simberg wrote:
On 1 Apr 2006 21:22:03 -0800, in a place far, far away, "Ed Kyle"
made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a
way as to indicate that:

Ed Kyle wrote:
SpaceX official Ewon Shotwell

Make that VP Gwen Shotwell.

Make it Gwynne Shotwell.

Gwynne it is.

Gwynne Shotwell - Vice President of Business Development.

Seems like an unusual SpaceX employee to start quoting internal short
term investigation finding to the public, but I guess that she has
been doing public relations.

I understand her assertion that the ongoing investigation
prevents releasing failure cause details, but I don't
believe for a second that the Government is preventing
SpaceX from releasing images and/or video of the actual
crash and post-impact fire.

No. SpaceX will certainly censor those themselves. It is one thing to
highlight the truth in that it failed, but it is another to show to
their future customers what SpaceX can do to their precious cargo.

This matter however is about SpaceX and this governmental agency
releasing one or more reports that agree with each other.

SpaceX will quickly develop
a contentious relationship with the media if it continues
to attempt to control information this way.

This is not unusual for any commercial or corporate entity.

Any why not release the explosion video?

Bad advertising.

Kind of like that engine test when they did well to burn down the test
stand.

The national
media paid not a whit of attention to the launch attempt.

I think I read a small column on it.

And I guess in this case I would think that the media would be wrong
to not cover this better, when it is not like that a commercial
company making orbit is not as important, or even more important, to
SpaceShipOne winning the X-Prize.

They would have if SpaceX had released what is probably
a spectacular failure video. Bad press is good publicity
in this era.

It also matters not if the general public have a blow by blow account
of the successes and failures of SpaceX or not, when I am sure that
when SpaceX make orbit then someone will inform the media as to the
nature of this historic event. What does matter is that SpaceX keeps
up a good image to their customer base, where in the end those
customers will be more happy not seeing the worst case situation of
what can happen to their own cargo.

Your desire to see this landing video I expect is all self-centered.

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