Angry Astronauts Write Letter

"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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On 4/22/2010 4:30 PM, Brian Thorn wrote:
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 06:53:21 -0800, Pat
wrote:


Remains to be seen, of course. I'd prefer we bet our farm on a company
that's actually successfully built spacecraft.

Needs some work on the recovery system.
What did Lockheed-Martin build in the lines of manned spacecraft?

I didn't say *manned* spacecraft. Lockheed's been building spacecraft
for decades, including some that failed (which is where most lessons
are learned.) SpaceX is almost completely inexperienced.

Yeah, but manned is a whole other ball of wax, if for no other reason than
the TPS and recovery systems.

And life support, and human interfaces to control systems, and etc.

Jeff
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