Rutan describes plans for orbital spacecraft

Scott Lowther wrote:

Neil Halelamien wrote:

"We'd have a small cramped cabin for the orbital flight and you'd be in
it for a long time. You'd want to go to a hotel [because of that] and
for orbital tourism you'd want an altitude of 130km," says Rutan.

Yikes. You'd want higher than that, and you'd want more than one guy.

For a tourist thing but maybe his design can't get more than one guy
there. It starts with this stuff about needing more people and pretty
soon we have that damn Space Shuttle again.


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Scott Lowther wrote:

Neil Halelamien wrote:

"We'd have a small cramped cabin for the orbital flight and you'd be in
it for a long time. You'd want to go to a hotel [because of that] and
for orbital tourism you'd want an altitude of 130km," says Rutan.

Yikes. You'd want higher than that, and you'd want more than one guy.

For a tourist thing but maybe his design can't get more than one guy
there. It starts with this stuff about needing more people and pretty
soon we have that damn Space Shuttle again.

Well, if it's going to take three launches the same day to get me and
two women up to the orbiting love hotel, you might as well get a ship
that can do it in one go.

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