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Skriven 2007-05-21 21:03:54 av Starlord (1231.babylon5)
     Kommentar till en text av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Ärende: Re: Are Ares I and V red herrings or the way to the Moon?
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You have sold rutan short, he's been a plane builder for a long time, for 
years I didn't know who had sold the kit planes Easy and Ver-easy until I 
worked on the airport at a time when people could order the props from the 
company I worked for, heck I turend a lot of his props myself on the 
machines. That company is gone now and I'm not sure if you order the plans 
now or not but I do see'm flying in the area (I live 15 miles from Mojave 
Spaceport)
where rutans been in there for at lest 30 years. Yes the first test flight 
which will be on the newly (Now being built) and bigger White Knight II 
plane which will be used for the testing if not also for the orbial flights. 
I was on the field when the FAA rep. gave the notice to the Mojave Aiport 
officer the cert. that Mojave is the First Civ. Spaceport without water 
bodys and is landlocked and is now called Mojave airport/spaceport depending 
on the flight that is taking place at contact with the tower. So after 
missing a lot of good history I saw one good note to history.


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"Chris Adams" <cmadams@hiwaay.net> wrote in message 
news:1354pcuf8j14u2c@corp.supernews.com...
> Once upon a time, Starlord <starlord@sidewalkastronomy.info> said:
>>I think NASA should maybe ask a man named RUTAN to do some desin and then
>>building of a good ship that could maybe do more than just one mission. 
>>I'd
>>say he might be able to but then again NASA didn't even like his 
>>sub-orbital
>>flights either.
>
> Burt Rutan is a smart guy and has done great things, but I don't
> understand the near idol-worship some people want to give him.  He
> designed a ship for exactly one purpose, to win the X Prize, and it was
> right at the edge of its capabilities to do that (if NASA had flown
> missions the way he did, they'd have been blasted by the same people for
> risking lives).
>
> The sub-orbital flights caught up to where NASA and the US Air Force
> were in the early 1960s.  Scaled Composites haven't flown to space since
> 2004; they are trying to start test flights of SpaceShipTwo by the end
> of this year, but it will still be sub-orbital.
>
> -- 
> Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
> I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
>
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