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Old January 1st 06, 07:22 PM posted to sci.space.policy
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Default Bezos brings space race to Kent as he plans a passenger rocket

On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 15:59:00 GMT, in a place far, far away,
Christopher made the phosphor on my
monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

Yet another suborbital flight company that'll probably go the same way
as Roton did.


Roton was not a suborbital flight company. And it didn't have
billions of dollars of its own money, as Jeff Bezos does. Other than
that your prediction is spot on (not).


Oh, when is he going to 'go for orbit'?


Presumably after he's sorted out suborbit. The mistake (including
NASA and the Air Force) everyone makes is to take too large a leap
before they've figured out how to do things cheaply and reliably. As
Jeff Greason has pointed out numerous times, it's much easier to
gradually expand the envelope of a low-cost reliable system (the way
we did with aviation) than to take an existing high-performance system
and make it low-cost and reliable.