Comments on: After Dragon, SpaceX’s focus returns to Falcon

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Sun, 26 May 2013 13:38:37 +0000

[…] has not yet launched a rocket equipped with a large fairing. The five flights of its Falcon 9 rocket to date have carried a capsule or its mockup. With several […]

By: Hannah

Hannah — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 22:20:40 +0000

Laser and EM beam energy technology has been shown to work with low weight objects? I’m a newbie and don’t know much. If you could explain a bit more. What low weight are we talking about? Is there really a possibility for people to be “beamed” in let’s say 40 years? That’s so exciting. Thanks.

By: Aresia

Aresia — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 12:26:48 +0000

I think space flight will become “routine” when we find a way of getting us into space slowly via laser or EM beam energy. The technology has been shown to work with low weight objects. If we could get into say a 100kgs pod and be ferried up by laser or beam to LEO where we would dock with a spacecraft, that would change the whole nature of spaceflight. No need to suffer huge G forces. Maybe an hour or two to LEO. Clearly though, that is a few decades away.

By: Chris Jefferies

Chris Jefferies — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 22:06:15 +0000

I’m a child of the forties, Stuart, and well remember the launch of Sputnik 1 and heard its bleeping on BBC radio when I was none-years-old

I am very confident that SpaceX will succeed in making spaceflight significantly more routine than it has been.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 08:26:16 +0000

As a child of the sixties I do wonder…. can spaceflight ever truly become routine?

Good luck to SpaceX, make it pay!

By: JimNobles

JimNobles — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 11:59:08 +0000

Now we are going to see if SpaceX can do the business part as well as they’ve learned to do the engineering part.