Dragon Rocket Fizzles! 1960 all over again~

On May 23, 4:24*am, "GordonD" wrote:
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There have been so many nay-sayers over the years saying how hard
spaceflight is and how it simply must be expensive because it's so hard..
These people thumbed their noses at the like of Orbital Sciences
(Pegasus) and poked fun at them when they had launch failures. *The same
trend continued with SpaceX as they struggled to get a vehicle into
orbit successfully.

Where are the nay-sayers today?

Arthur C. Clarke put it this way:

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may
be summed up by the phrases:
1- It's completely impossible.
2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing.
3- I said it was a good idea all along.
--
Gordon Davie
Edinburgh, Scotland

"Slipped the surly bonds of Earth...to touch the face of God."

Thanks for that. I feel SSTO's are at level 2 in Clarke's quote. Soon
they will be at level 3.

Bob Clark