? Which of these events will happen next?

Please rank these chronologically (earliest to latest):

A) Space Shuttle Return to Flight

B) ATV launch

C) Spaceship One Space Flight Attempt

D) Falcon launch attempt

E) Shenzhou 6 launch

F) Armadillo Aerospace Space Flight Attempt

"Explorer8939" wrote in message
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Please rank these chronologically (earliest to latest):

A) Space Shuttle Return to Flight

B) ATV launch

C) Spaceship One Space Flight Attempt

D) Falcon launch attempt

E) Shenzhou 6 launch

F) Armadillo Aerospace Space Flight Attempt

B
A
C
D
E
F

Bruce

I would call you a pessimist, but we're not that far off:

D: Falcon
C: Spaceship One
B: ATV
A: Space Shuttle (maybe before ATV)
E Shenzhou
F: John Carmack




"Bruce Sterling Woodcock" wrote in message
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"Explorer8939" wrote in message
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Please rank these chronologically (earliest to latest):

A) Space Shuttle Return to Flight

B) ATV launch

C) Spaceship One Space Flight Attempt

D) Falcon launch attempt

E) Shenzhou 6 launch

F) Armadillo Aerospace Space Flight Attempt

B
A
C
D
E
F

Bruce

Rutan will fly in February

Musk will fly in May

Carmack will fly in June

China will fly in August

ATV will fly in September

Shuttle will shred in another stupid winter launch

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Shuttle will shred in another stupid winter launch

Nope, the daylight launch limitation imposed after the Columbia accident
means there's no launch windows to ISS between late November and March.

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On 21 Jan 2004 04:06:44 GMT, "Jorge R. Frank"
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Shuttle will shred in another stupid winter launch

Nope, the daylight launch limitation imposed after the Columbia accident
means there's no launch windows to ISS between late November and March.

There's a couple of days available in January.

Brian

(Tony Rusi) wrote in message . com...
Rutan will fly in February

Musk will fly in May

Carmack will fly in June

China will fly in August

ATV will fly in September

Shuttle will shred in another stupid winter launch

We can't possibly have a launch license in June, and I doubt we would
be fully ready anyway. We might be capable of taking a stab at an
unmanned space shot with the current vehicle, but we are basically
being forced to build another vehicle to have enough propellant
reserve for powered landing. All the pieces for the next vehicle are
starting to arrive, so we will probably fly the current one until we
crash it, then build up the larger one.

I will be quite surprised if Rutan flies to 100 km next month. He
doesn't have a launch license yet either, although it sounds like they
are going to pay what it takes to get it done through conventional
channels.

We are probably going to be hot-firing all the engines on the vehicle
this weekend. If that goes well, then weather permitting, we will do
a captive hover test next week, followed by a free flight at constant
velocity, followed by accelerating flights, followed by
launch-license-limit propellant loads. If everything went perfectly,
that would be March, but things never do go perfectly.

We continue to make steady, measured progress on many fronts. There
have been two outside forces that have retarded us somewhat, but both
of them have had a bright side:

Not being able to get 90% peroxide after X-L Space Systems closed down
forced us to develop our mixed-monoprop engines, which are somewhat
higher performance, and a lot cheaper to run.

Being strongly discouraged from using parachute systems due to drift
concerns under system failures at WSMR has pushed us back to powered
landing (and a vehicle upscale), which is where we really wanted to be
eventually anyway.

All things considered, I'm pretty excited.

John Carmack
www.armadilloaerospace.com