8 Dec 2010, 10:43:00 am
“SpaceX launches (pictured) and recovers the Dragon spacecraft during its first test flight, the first commercially-developed spacecraft to successfully return after orbiting the Earth.” (Wiki)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COTS_Demo_Flight_1
www.spacex.com/downloads/cots1-20101206.pdf
Love it. This is fantastic. In 50 years, commercial spaceflight agencies will dominate. They’ll also continue to fight government legislation after botched attempts to police their own industry. Sure enough, there will be a huge disaster in space caused by some bloated company and some feckless CEO that would rather boat race that fix the problem.
Elon Musk is becoming a hero, to me!
Atk
Ops… And Burt Rutan, Robert Bigelow, etc…
Atk
I think you missed the point of his post, but these guys are awesome (I’m assuming these are the guys that are doing the commercial flights).
I think the point is: “the first commercially-developed spacecraft to successfully return after orbiting the Earth.”
Elon Musk is the guy who made this!
Atk
I think he was making a point about industries policing themselves poorly and how this will almost certainly go that way as well.
Sorry, RSIxidor, I don’t understand your comment, Google translator is a SHIT to portuguese…
Atk
Until I read the comment, I thought this was Madonna’s new dildo. Then I realized, it’s too small for her.
im sure madonnas tighter than your mum.
A joke about Madonna?
You must be lost, this is not the late 90s.