The NTSB findings and recommendations: http://www.ntsb.gov/news/events/Documents/2015_spaceship2_BM...
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#22The NTSB findings and recommendations: http://www.ntsb.gov/news/events/Documents/2015_spaceship2_BM...
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#24A little OT, but the contrast between SpaceX and The Spaceship Company is striking. Elon Musk is pushing for interstellar travel, while Branson is pushing for space tourism. Seems so petty in comparison.
It's all good. They're bringing more money to an industry that can then fund further development. Google, for example, is mostly an ad company. They've taken all that money and built some pretty cool stuff. Among other things, we should get self-driving vehicles and futuristic robots with that money. So, the 62 mile high space tourist plane will turn into an one orbit trip in a few years. Then to the moon in 25.
Just sort of FYI, in 1969 I was promised a tourist space station I could visit in 25 years by NASA ... (well and their lapdogs the Scholastic Press :-)
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#25A little OT, but the contrast between SpaceX and The Spaceship Company is striking. Elon Musk is pushing for interstellar travel, while Branson is pushing for space tourism. Seems so petty in comparison.
I don't really follow SpaceX to know what Elon Musk is pushing for, but as a practical engineer it seems unlikely that he would be pushing for something that is outside the realm of what physics considers at all possible.
SpaceX has a current mission of reducing launch costs and providing low-cost launch services, with a long term goal of helping humanity settle other planets (mars being the first, perhaps only planet mentioned right now). Interplanetary is well within our realm. Interstellar, not currently.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't really follow SpaceX to know what Elon Musk is pushing for, but as a practical engineer it seems unlikely that he would be pushing for something that is outside the realm of what physics considers at all possible.
SpaceX has a current mission of reducing launch costs and providing low-cost launch services, with a long term goal of helping humanity settle other planets (mars being the first, perhaps only planet mentioned right now). Interplanetary is well within our realm. Interstellar, not currently.
So then zapt02 misspoke.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's all good. They're bringing more money to an industry that can then fund further development. Google, for example, is mostly an ad company. They've taken all that money and built some pretty cool stuff. Among other things, we should get self-driving vehicles and futuristic robots with that money. So, the 62 mile high space tourist plane will turn into an one orbit trip in a few years. Then to the moon in 25.
Just sort of FYI, in 1969 I was promised a tourist space station I could visit in 25 years by NASA ... (well and their lapdogs the Scholastic Press :-)
Ask your politicians for the lack of funding, then. Those guys are remote controlling robots on the surface of another planet for more than 10 years. They are capable of sending you to a tourist attraction in space with enough funding.
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You're the second guy to say this. Stop and think... Ready for it? Because it was only months away from carrying tourists. You'll scare the tourists if you're afraid to use a human pilot.
I bet the tourists are pretty scared now.
Said tourist checking in. Still keeping my ticket I purchased over 4 years ago. Space is hard and I'll go when they're ready.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're the second guy to say this. Stop and think... Ready for it? Because it was only months away from carrying tourists. You'll scare the tourists if you're afraid to use a human pilot.
I bet the tourists are pretty scared now.
Only 3% have asked for refunds as of 5th November last year[1]. Could be more now, of course, but demand is still high. They'll sell the returns no matter what.
[1]http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/nov/05/virgin-galact...
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