Comments on: Eight years later, is the suborbital industry finally ready for liftoff? http://www.newspacejournal.com/2012/06/21/eight-years-later-is-the-suborbital-industry-finally-ready-for-liftoff/ Tracking the entrepreneurial space industry Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:33:32 +0800 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Pete http://www.newspacejournal.com/2012/06/21/eight-years-later-is-the-suborbital-industry-finally-ready-for-liftoff/comment-page-1/#comment-628461 Sat, 23 Jun 2012 16:42:30 +0000 http://www.newspacejournal.com/?p=1715#comment-628461 My thoughts on this issue:

http://aerospaceagenda.com/2012/01/30/space-tourism–so-close-yet-so-far-away.aspx

http://aerospaceagenda.com/2008/03/26/xcor-joins-space-tourism-race-with-unveiling-of-lynx-1-subobital-rocket.aspx

]]> By: Thomas Matula http://www.newspacejournal.com/2012/06/21/eight-years-later-is-the-suborbital-industry-finally-ready-for-liftoff/comment-page-1/#comment-628185 Fri, 22 Jun 2012 21:08:32 +0000 http://www.newspacejournal.com/?p=1715#comment-628185 Its becoming clearer and clearer that by letting the X-Prize select his vehicle Sir Richard Branson ended up backing the wrong technology. The question is how much longer he will allow it to continue before he decides the PR value is gone and its time to pull the plug. I suspect it will be after XCOR starts regular tourist flights making it impossible for Sir Richard Branson to claim VG was first.

]]> By: Bill Hensley http://www.newspacejournal.com/2012/06/21/eight-years-later-is-the-suborbital-industry-finally-ready-for-liftoff/comment-page-1/#comment-627729 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:40:51 +0000 http://www.newspacejournal.com/?p=1715#comment-627729 One can forgive the various under-capitalized ventures for the long lapse. But it seems as though Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin could easily have been flying passengers for some time now if they had focused their efforts correctly. For comparison, look at where SpaceX was in 2004 and what they have accomplished in the interim. But this is why we love having so many competitors, is it not? Let everyone take a different approach and some will get to the finish line sooner (and more successfully) than others.

]]> By: reader http://www.newspacejournal.com/2012/06/21/eight-years-later-is-the-suborbital-industry-finally-ready-for-liftoff/comment-page-1/#comment-627710 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:24:04 +0000 http://www.newspacejournal.com/?p=1715#comment-627710 No – Boyle’s law cannot be violated, at least until Higgs boson is found.

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