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On Sun, 09 Apr 2006 09:10:34 -0400, in a place far, far away,
(Eric Chomko) made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: : All I did was repeat all of the (to me, silly) space policy arguments : that I've heard over the years, and many people took it as a serious : post. Well, in lieu of the setback of SpaceX, what were many of us supposed to think? How deep is the financial well? Deep enough, for now. |
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Certainly, not according to you. But when has Brad ever said anything
sceptical about commercial spaceflight? I'm pretty sure he's a true believer, right along with you on that one. Eric Chomko, To some extent I'll even put up with the likes of William Mook's nukes in space and that of Tomcat's massively volumetric composite spaceplane that has got seven of those SSME's in it's butt, along with an array of 45 landing gear wheels that'll have to be rated for 50t each. Actually, a conventional fly-by-rocket of getting the most tonnage per ISP into the LL-1 zone is that of a terrific win-win for everything and everyone. It's even far enough away from our extremely dark and nasty reactive moon, enough that perhaps a 29.5 day mission seems entirely survivable (especially if everyone has established their personal cash of banked bone marrow as Plan-B). - Brad Guth |
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nimcha wrote:
They've designed a completely new launcher, from the ground up; it's no great surprise that the maiden voyage didn't work. This is pretty typical for brand new systems -- even for NASA! Remember Vanguard? Hell, remember the Soviet N-1? Pat |
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