[s-cars] OT Re: Space. The final frontier. (NAC)

[jpb3]

Fellas,

Though Virgin Galactic is a supremely entrepreneurial effort that has
met success I think that the successful launch of Space X, i.e. Falcon
is far more significant for long term space development.  Burtan and
Branson's effort is to place earthlings in a parabolic trajectory that
achieves weightlessness on the cusp of our atmosphere rather than
achieve both LEO (low earth orbit) and GEO ( geostationary earth
orbit) as the Space X project does.  The Falcon is  a liquid fueled
rocket, much as the Atlas or Titan launch vehicles, that do the bulk
of the nations (worlds) heavy lifting to space.

Virgin Galactic will ferry humans to the edge of space, Space X is
trying to provide low cost private enterprise solutions for true earth
orbit deployments of both man and machine.

Two very different but equally impressive feats.  Both are needed if
the US plans on staying in the space game as the NASA human
exploration efforts are going to be slashed regardless of who wins the
white house.

John

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 7:19 AM, John Cody Forbes <cody at 5000tq.com> wrote:
> This one is pretty far OT, so I'll try to keep it brief, but I think Richard
> Branson and Burt Rutans project is much more significant and impressive.
>
> http://www.virgingalactic.com/
>
> -Cody
>
> bill mahoney wrote:
>> SpaceX  ~
>> First private rocket achieves earth orbit.
>> Wow!
>> Check out the the youtube vid.  Love the cheers upon stage
>> separation.  Wow!
>> http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/supercomputers/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=210604571
>> Bill~One of these days... to the moon Alice!~M
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