Comments on: Musk on the Dragon glitch, Texas spaceport plans, and needling Bezos

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By: Falcon 9 launches Dragon; outcome of reusability experiment unclear « NewSpace Journal

Fri, 18 Apr 2014 22:59:27 +0000

[…] Musk did indicate there was a minor glitch with the Dragon itself noticed shortly after being released from the Falcon’s upper stage. “We had some slight initial challenges with Dragon, with respect to enabling some of the thruster quads, but those have been resolved, so it looks like everything’s good on the Dragon front,” he said. Later, he said the issue was with an isolation valve that feeds two of the spacecraft’s four thruster valves, but a backup valve resolved the problem. He said he wasn’t sure if this was related to the valve issues that caused problems for the previous Dragon mission, in March 2013. […]

By: Shiloh spaceport study gets underway, but is it too late for SpaceX? « NewSpace Journal

Sun, 09 Feb 2014 19:16:03 +0000

[…] few kilometers north of the Mexican border. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has said on a number of occasions, including a talk last March, that Brownsville was the leading candidate for SpaceX’s planned new commercial […]

By: New Mexico governor signs liability bill; Texas makes progress on space bills « Space Politics

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 11:06:34 +0000

[…] last month at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, Musk indicated that Texas was the leading candidate for SpaceX’s planned commercial launch sit…, although it is in competition with locations in Florida, Georgia, and elsewhere. He specifically […]

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By: Stuart

Stuart — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 18:57:15 +0000

This appears to be a really open and honest interview giving a great deal of detail about Dragon and Grasshopper indeed regarding the latter the opposite to Blue Origin press releases.

To be honest I really can’t wait for videos of the “hypersonic, high altitude” Grasshopper tests. The expression “Flying by the seat of your pants” comes to mind.

It sounds as if he’s just realised how difficult it really is to “occupy Mars”.

Airing his opinion that he would be disappointed not to set foot on Mars is the first time I’ve heard him say this.

By adding if it doesn’t happen he’d still be glad, that in a nutshell SpaceX is heading in the right direction and he’d do this anyway takes the sting out of the tale.

The Dragon thruster glitch sounds like it is still a bit of a puzzle but I’m sure on return to Earth it will be resolved for good.

I like the thought that he’s talking with other billionaires about space, perhaps he might get the right reply one day.

I still dream of interplanetary spacecraft…!