Comments on: SpaceX, suborbital advocates fight NASA authorization bill http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/07/29/spacex-suborbital-advocates-fight-nasa-authorization-bill/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=spacex-suborbital-advocates-fight-nasa-authorization-bill Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Martijn Meijering http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/07/29/spacex-suborbital-advocates-fight-nasa-authorization-bill/#comment-320043 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 21:14:15 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=3779#comment-320043 Where do people come up with this lunacy, anyway?

Nature provides an infinite supply of idiocy to those with ulterior motives.

]]> By: Rand Simberg http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/07/29/spacex-suborbital-advocates-fight-nasa-authorization-bill/#comment-320008 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 17:40:44 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=3779#comment-320008 1. It is not the main selling feature
2. It is not branded as an RLV

Where do people come up with this lunacy, anyway? They seem to live in an alternate reality.

]]> By: Byeman http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/07/29/spacex-suborbital-advocates-fight-nasa-authorization-bill/#comment-319974 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 14:39:39 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=3779#comment-319974 “Tell Musk & SpaceX not to sell a lift system branded RLV if you can’t demo the main selling feature to customers”

1. It is not the main selling feature
2. It is not branded as an RLV
3. NASA has them on contract as an ELV (not COTS or CRS but as a launch service provider)

]]> By: Martijn Meijering http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/07/29/spacex-suborbital-advocates-fight-nasa-authorization-bill/#comment-319906 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 01:33:18 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=3779#comment-319906 @Byeman, Dude. Your SpaceX Merlin (emphasis added)

Heh.

]]> By: Rand Simberg http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/07/29/spacex-suborbital-advocates-fight-nasa-authorization-bill/#comment-319880 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:32:21 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=3779#comment-319880 Tell Musk & SpaceX not to sell a lift system branded RLV if you can’t demo the main selling feature to customers.

It’s not being sold as an RLV. SpaceX’s prices assume that they expend it each time.

]]> By: Bruce Behrhorst http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/07/29/spacex-suborbital-advocates-fight-nasa-authorization-bill/#comment-319874 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:48:54 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=3779#comment-319874 @Byeman, Dude. Your SpaceX Merlin engine launcher as sold as a 100% 9 engine module recoverable system-Didn’t happen.

This is where the rubber meets the road. Tell Musk & SpaceX not to sell a lift system branded RLV if you can’t demo the main selling feature to customers.

]]> By: common sense http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/07/29/spacex-suborbital-advocates-fight-nasa-authorization-bill/#comment-319708 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:28:44 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=3779#comment-319708 @ DCSCA wrote @ July 30th, 2010 at 4:24 pm

You may want to learn something about musketeers. For one they worked for the government…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musketeer

]]> By: Byeman http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/07/29/spacex-suborbital-advocates-fight-nasa-authorization-bill/#comment-319704 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:21:07 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=3779#comment-319704 Better to be a ‘musketeer” than a Shaft lover.

]]> By: common sense http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/07/29/spacex-suborbital-advocates-fight-nasa-authorization-bill/#comment-319697 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:32:49 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=3779#comment-319697 @ DCSCA wrote @ July 30th, 2010 at 4:25 pm

“@byeman, And for the record, to date Elon Musk has flown absolutely nobody in space.”

Neither has ATK nor LMT.

]]> By: DCSCA http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/07/29/spacex-suborbital-advocates-fight-nasa-authorization-bill/#comment-319694 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:25:38 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=3779#comment-319694 @byeman, And for the record, to date Elon Musk has flown absolutely nobody in space.

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