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

[John Cody Forbes]

The way I see it is Virgin's project will do more good for one primary 
reason: public interest. I think because Virgin will be giving hundreds of 
rich people a taste we will see them investing further into all areas of 
space flight technology and a renewed public interest in getting us out 
there.

What builds more interest about the seas: QE2, or the Jahre Viking? 
Obviously our interest in the seas peaked a looong time ago, but I think my 
point can be seen. Few get as excited about something they can't take for a 
spin themselves ;-).

JMHO,
-Cody


jpb3 wrote:
> 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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