Re: NASA IS SCREWED, thats a quote by rutan

From: Scott Moore (samiam_at_moorecad.com)
Date: 10/05/04 

Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 10:06:28 GMT

john doe wrote:

> bob haller wrote:
>
>>nasa is screwed, thats a quote by rutan after todays flight, that quote was
>>catrried on the news radio here today. things are changing, perhaps nasa itself
>>is obsolete?
>
>
> Rutan's achievement is great. But it is really nowhere near having orbital
> capacity. Air France and British Airways, until recently , few Mach 2.5 with
> about 90 passengers for 3 hours flights twice a day. Rutan's machine goes
> Mach 3 for a couple minutes for 2 pax and 1 pilot.
>
> I think they need to increase speed 10 fold before they can go to orbit, and
> then deal with the heating problems of re-entry.
>
> It will be some time before NASA is made totally redundant for LEO travel.

Well, since Nasa essentially resigned itself to LEO travel only, they made
meeting their mission capabilities easier :-) 

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