On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 01:11:57 GMT, "G.R. Patterson III"
wrote:



John Harlow wrote:

So, what exactly does this event tell us about NASA?

That they quit doing this sort of thing about 45 years ago when the X-15 program shut
down.

They really never did do quite the same thing and it wasn't in this
fashion.

The only similarity was the attempt to put a man into space.

Like all government operations they take the brute force method which
is basically pilling on enough money to get the job done. In private
industry the idea is to do it as simply as possible. Any government
agency is going to be under much more scrutiny than a small private
group as it's tax payers money.
You also have the politicians making issues out of any issue even if
it's only been hinted. OTOH SpaceShipOne certainly was in the center
of the public's eye for a few days

I wonder how many dollars the space program had spent by the time they
did the first sub orbital shot?

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

George Patterson
If a man gets into a fight 3,000 miles away from home, he *had* to have
been looking for it.