Comments on: Rocketplanes and safety http://www.newspacejournal.com/2007/03/07/rocketplanes-and-safety/ Tracking the entrepreneurial space industry Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:33:32 +0800 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Personal Spaceflight » Your chance to respond to Bell’s essay http://www.newspacejournal.com/2007/03/07/rocketplanes-and-safety/comment-page-1/#comment-106562 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:28:10 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2007/03/07/rocketplanes-and-safety/#comment-106562 […] Last week Jeff Bell published an essay on SpaceDaily questioning the safety of rocketplanes planned for space tourism applications. His essay was not well-received in many sectors, including here. If you have questions you’d like to pose to Professor Bell about his essay (or congratulate him for his comments, for that matter), he will appear on The Space Show this Thursday at 10 pm EDT. As host David Livingston puts it, “here’s your chance to engage Dr. Bell in a constructive dialog.” […]

]]> By: Anthony Kendall http://www.newspacejournal.com/2007/03/07/rocketplanes-and-safety/comment-page-1/#comment-100702 Thu, 08 Mar 2007 14:31:21 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2007/03/07/rocketplanes-and-safety/#comment-100702 Just about everything article that comes out of Jeff Bell’s fingers these days is some curmudgeonly piece trying to shoehorn the present NewSpace environment into his jaded view of spaceflight past. But, alas, he’s of a generation that seemed that it would reap the rewards of a space-faring future, and here he is still stuck on the ground.

Not that I begrudge his right to criticize; merely his right to criticize with only half the facts in place.

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