Re: Rocket Planes; How Safe?

On 7 Mar 2007 09:25:23 -0800, in a place far, far away,
dumpster4@xxxxxxxxxxx made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a
way as to indicate that:

The article at:

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Rocket_Plane_Roulette_999.html


casts doubt on the safety of some of the new rocket plane projects
being developed by private industry.

Will these new vehicles really be that dangerous?

No. As usual, Bell has no idea what he's talking about. It's stupid
to extrapolate the safety of modern suborbital passenger vehicles from
fifty-year-old research programs.
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