Comments on: Putting the SpaceX (test) launch into perspective http://www.newspacejournal.com/2012/05/18/putting-the-spacex-test-launch-into-perspective/ Tracking the entrepreneurial space industry Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:33:32 +0800 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Robert Clark http://www.newspacejournal.com/2012/05/18/putting-the-spacex-test-launch-into-perspective/comment-page-1/#comment-626112 Sat, 16 Jun 2012 21:53:43 +0000 http://www.newspacejournal.com/?p=1692#comment-626112 Two posts to my blog.
This first one argues that the importance of what SpaceX accomplished is that other
companies can do it too and at similar costs. There was nothing particularly
innovative about the SpaceX engines or of their structures. All that would be
required is to use normal good business practice in privately developing the
launchers and the spacecraft:

On the lasting importance of the SpaceX accomplishment.
http://exoscientist.blogspot.com/2012/06/on-lasting-importance-of-spacex.html

And this one proposes the orbital DC-Y as a private, commercial passenger
launcher at a few hundred million development cost:

On the lasting importance of the SpaceX accomplishment, Page 2.
http://exoscientist.blogspot.com/2012/06/on-lasting-importance-of-spacex_15.html

Bob Clark

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