Comments on: Rutan and the future of spaceflight http://www.newspacejournal.com/2007/06/20/rutan-and-the-future-of-spaceflight/ Tracking the entrepreneurial space industry Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:33:32 +0800 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Anonymous http://www.newspacejournal.com/2007/06/20/rutan-and-the-future-of-spaceflight/comment-page-1/#comment-169595 Sun, 24 Jun 2007 04:52:43 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2007/06/20/rutan-and-the-future-of-spaceflight/#comment-169595 Rutan and the future of spaceflight…

Video of Burt Rutan discussing the future of spaceflight….

]]> By: Garry http://www.newspacejournal.com/2007/06/20/rutan-and-the-future-of-spaceflight/comment-page-1/#comment-167422 Thu, 21 Jun 2007 02:23:06 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2007/06/20/rutan-and-the-future-of-spaceflight/#comment-167422 Heck yeah this industry is stagnant! Our commercial airliners are basically the same thing as fifty years ago just with fancier avionics and only slighly different manufacturing processes! Same with our spaceships! I hope NewSpace can put some pep into aerospace..

]]> By: Peter Shearer http://www.newspacejournal.com/2007/06/20/rutan-and-the-future-of-spaceflight/comment-page-1/#comment-166872 Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:36:41 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2007/06/20/rutan-and-the-future-of-spaceflight/#comment-166872 Oh Jeff I didn’t know you hadn’t seen this! I would’ve told you about it a while back! It’s a awesome speech to be sure and he makes a lot of comparisons that are really eye opening.

I especially like the part about “kids shouldn’t be excited about new camera-phones!” that one struck a cord with me as I keep seeing my peers excited about these little gadgets yet when I ask them what they think of this new space tourism biz they look at me and go “huh???”

We know somethings wrong when even young people have given up on space. The thing is, they don’t think it’s within their reach… It’s about to be… It might take another ten years but when people realize that becoming an astronaut IS possible… Oh boy, you’re going to see some excited young people! (as well as older of course!)

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