Re: Spacefaring by bureaucrats

From: Andrew Gray (andrew.gray_at_dunelm.org.uk)
Date: 03/18/05


Date: 18 Mar 2005 14:34:16 GMT

On 2005-03-18, stevejdufour@yahoo.com <stevejdufour@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> David Gump, president of Transformational Space, a consortium of
> smaller aerospace companies -- including Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites
> -- told the magazine New Scientist last Saturday the consortium would
> not bid on the CEV because of NASA's paperwork requirements.

Someone pointed out to me that New Scientist is the only source for
this; their website hasn't been updated in four weeks. Is anything else
floating around wrt their decision?

-- 
-Andrew Gray
 andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk


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