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re: Fisking the fisking

Nathan Koren — 7/21/2004 4:20:35 PM (archived)

Excellent job, Larry! But one correction -- Musk has indeed stated that he intends for the Falcon V to be man-rated, and has furthermore said that he is in talks with parties who are interested in flying human-carrying vehicles (which would be designed by third parties, not by SpaceX. And by my calculations, they should be able to squeeze 5-6 people on the Falcon V, and perhaps more.

Anyhow, like you and Mr. Bell, I think I'm ultimately more optimistic about Musk's approach than Rutan's. But that's no reason to cook up all kinds of bogus bull-crap to disparage Rutan's outright heroic efforts.

Cheers,

Nathan.

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StuntShipOne: The GeeBee Of Outer Space by Jeff Bell - Mark Eby - 7/21/2004 3:05:34 AM
- Fisking the article - Larry J - 7/21/2004 3:17:21 PM
  - Educational, thanks Larry (n/t) - McFly - 7/22/2004 1:39:17 PM
  - Great post. You might want to pass it on to SpaceDaily. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 7/21/2004 10:13:34 PM
  - re: Fisking the fisking - Nathan Koren - 7/21/2004 4:20:35 PM
    - Thanks for the info on SpaceX - Larry J - 7/21/2004 4:55:45 PM
      - re: Thanks for the info on SpaceX - Nathan Koren - 7/21/2004 5:42:37 PM
        
        I did a little checking on the SpaceX website - Larry J - 7/22/2004 6:16:18 PM
        
        All the market will bear... - Tom Brosz - 7/23/2004 3:03:37 AM
        
        re: All the market will bear... - Nathan Koren - 7/23/2004 3:59:21 PM
        
        To be fair... - Tom Brosz - 7/24/2004 4:36:27 AM
        
        re: I did a little checking on the SpaceX website - Nathan Koren - 7/23/2004 1:39:42 AM
        
        But at least it's now within sight. - Lee - 7/21/2004 11:45:20 PM
        
        Absolutely - Nathan Koren - 7/22/2004 2:09:31 AM
- Nit picking - Gary - 7/21/2004 5:29:51 AM
- re: StuntShipOne: The GeeBee Of Outer Space by Jeff Bell - Nathan Koren - 7/21/2004 4:39:59 AM
- re: StuntShipOne - Tom Brosz - 7/21/2004 3:43:04 AM
  - re: Energy limitations for private spaceflight - M - 7/21/2004 4:23:01 AM
    - Codswallop! - Nick Hoffman - 7/21/2004 7:07:03 AM
      - Well put! - dtb - 7/22/2004 1:06:39 AM
      - Well put! - dtb - 7/22/2004 1:06:30 AM
      - re: Energy Limited - N - 7/21/2004 8:52:50 AM
        
        Shuttle Mass - Adam - 7/24/2004 10:28:07 PM
        
        re: Correction - O - 7/21/2004 9:01:30 AM
        
        re: Correction - Nick Hoffman - 7/21/2004 9:52:08 AM
        
        Then you obviously agree that private space industry will be rather limited in scale (n/t) - P - 7/21/2004 10:26:46 AM
        
        Refer to my post below entitled "The Limits of Deductive Reasoning" - Q - 7/21/2004 11:50:49 AM
        
        A future different from what we expected - R - 7/21/2004 12:31:45 PM
        
        Consistent handles, please. - Tom Brosz - 7/21/2004 10:11:30 PM
        
        Don't worry Tom... - Nick Hoffman - 7/22/2004 4:39:50 AM
        
        re: Things change (n/t) - S - 7/21/2004 11:07:47 PM
        
        re: Things become confusing (n/t) - SteveS - 7/23/2004 1:55:18 PM
    - re:Oh come on! - Nathan Koren - 7/21/2004 4:52:18 AM
      - *Yeesh!* What crawled up *my* shorts tonight? - Nathan Koren - 7/21/2004 4:54:38 AM
        
        Hopefully, no valuable documents. ;) (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 7/21/2004 8:17:39 AM

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