Spaceship guru on the mend

steve smyth — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:30:42 GMT

I'm glad Rutan's OK.
I still want to know how Branson can justify proceeding with this Petro Chem fueled venture on one website, and propose The Virgin Earth Challenge on another...I want to see the proposed carbon pos/neg numbers on the whole venture...including the impact of all the construction traffic on the area surrounding Upham NM...
To learn more about Branson's Carbon Footprint, click my name below...scroll down the page to see the big picture...

Spaceship guru on the mend

Mike Moore, Los Alamos, New Mexico — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:23:09 GMT

I don't understand why we don't give Burt Rutan about half of NASAs budget. When one sees what he does with millions, imagine what he would do with billions. We'd probably be to Mars in 10 years.

Spaceship guru on the mend

Mike Borgelt,Toowoomba ,Australia — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:35:15 GMT

Who cares about the carbon footprint? That's just a scam anyway and those who pretend to care are scammers or fools.

Spaceship guru on the mend

The Wombat — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:41:19 GMT

G'day,

Yes, but if the privates got half the NASA budget, then all the big companies who like to waste money would complain to their bought congresscritters and Congress would take the money back.

Can't have people who can dream showing up the government.

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Spaceship guru on the mend

Morgan R., Denver , Colorado — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:16:33 GMT

As a young engineer looking at aerospace companies, I would sell promise my first-born to work for Scaled Composites. As Mike from Los Alamos said imagine what they could do with billions. Now if only we could pair Rutan with Robert Zubrin we really would be on Mars in ten years instead of revisiting the moon in maybe 15 or so.

Spaceship guru on the mend

Todd, Billerica, Ma — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:17:09 GMT

It is indeed good to hear that Burt is feeling better.

As far as the SpaceShipTwo progress goes, I think the team at Scaled will follow the same process flow as they did for SpaceShipOne. Test the plane until it is certified, test the spaceship first as captive carry, then drop and glide, then finally rocket powered. Just as with SpaceShip One, I will be following each step in the process with glee.