Comments on: Another tale of “the end of near” http://www.newspacejournal.com/2008/02/15/another-tale-of-the-end-of-near/ Tracking the entrepreneurial space industry Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:33:32 +0800 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Richard Garriott http://www.newspacejournal.com/2008/02/15/another-tale-of-the-end-of-near/comment-page-1/#comment-237314 Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:20:50 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2008/02/15/another-tale-of-the-end-of-near/#comment-237314 Space Adventures is the only company in field of many, who has sent, and who has any current _capability_ (emphasis added) to send, commercial space flight passengers to space. The company’s program development efforts are significantly more credible than others in the industry and they are the company that has proven the real market for personal space flight (the very subject of this blog). Let’s give them credit where credit is due. Every commercial space company’s website promotes future _capability_ that does not yet exist; Space Adventures is the only company to supplement such promotion with existing capability of any type at all.

]]> By: Jeff Foust http://www.newspacejournal.com/2008/02/15/another-tale-of-the-end-of-near/comment-page-1/#comment-236533 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:27:32 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2008/02/15/another-tale-of-the-end-of-near/#comment-236533 Mr. Coppinger: My apologies. I missed that passage the first time I read the article.

I did not talk with Mr. Anderson about suborbital or circumlunar flights during our conversation (which lasted a minute while he was heading out the door at the conference), although in the past he has de-emphasized suborbital spaceflight, saying it was not a priority for the company currently.

]]> By: Rob Coppinger http://www.newspacejournal.com/2008/02/15/another-tale-of-the-end-of-near/comment-page-1/#comment-236504 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:23:22 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2008/02/15/another-tale-of-the-end-of-near/#comment-236504 Jeff, you are wrong to say “Something that was later added to the Flightglobal.com report”. The story always carried the qoute from Space Adventures about the negotiations claim for post-2009 flights. I remember clearly typing it into the content management system – on Sunday 3 February – before it was pushed to our website software.

Please check your facts before you start suggesting that people had to change their story.

Did you ask Eric about the fact that his company’s website makes claims about suborbital services and lunar trips despite the company having no such capability whatsoever?

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