Re: Bezos' Blue Origin revealed!



On Jan 6, 5:28 pm, Pat Flannery <flan...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Henry Spencer wrote:
Why exactly should NASA be against it?
No launch system that they have would be economical enough to make it
viable...

Precisely. So if someone *can* make it viable, this says that NASA has
been wasting billions of dollars a year doing things the wrong way, while
loudly stating (either maliciously or incompetently) that there is no
alternative.

That is not a message that NASA wants to hear.I'll take the whole "wonderful new economical manned space vehicle"
concept a lot more seriously when I see something manned in orbit. I've
been hearing this mantra for around forty years now, and it's getting a
bit old.

Pat

One idea that might stimulate optimism for the private launcher
industry, and stimulate science education at the same time, is for the
private space tourist companies to partner with local schools and offer
a payload weight of (a couple of pounds for instance) for science
projects/experiments on board the tourist flights, which would allow
students to conduct science with real design and engineering
parameters.

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