After The X-Prize -- What?

In an attempt to move this discussion into something useful...

A vehicle capable of satisfying the requirements for
the X-Prize would be useful for joyrides. This can
make money, but it's a limited market.

How would you envision a commercial private space
enterprise developing from this beginning?

A vehicle capable of satisfying the requirements for
the X-Prize would be useful for joyrides. This can
make money, but it's a limited market.

How would you envision a commercial private space
enterprise developing from this beginning?

Look what Lindberg did. He knew that if his flight was a success, that it would
spark the imagination of others and help make transatlantic travel routine. He
was right, and Rutan and the other X plane competators have the same idea as
Lindberg. It may take a number years, but it will happen.

Matt Gunsch,
A&P,IA,Private Pilot
Riding member of the
2003 world champion drill team
Arizona Precision Motorcycle Drill Team
GWRRA,NRA,GOA

On 15 May 2004 15:31:59 -0700, (Paul A. Suhler)
wrote:

In an attempt to move this discussion into something useful...

A vehicle capable of satisfying the requirements for
the X-Prize would be useful for joyrides. This can
make money, but it's a limited market.

How would you envision a commercial private space
enterprise developing from this beginning?

Add an autopilot to remove the 3 crew and now you have a few hundred
pounds more payload to mess with. perhaps enough for a microsatellite
plus booster to get it the rest of the way?

Peter Kemp

In article ,
Peter Kemp wrote:

On 15 May 2004 15:31:59 -0700, (Paul A. Suhler)
wrote:

In an attempt to move this discussion into something useful...

A vehicle capable of satisfying the requirements for
the X-Prize would be useful for joyrides. This can
make money, but it's a limited market.

How would you envision a commercial private space
enterprise developing from this beginning?

Add an autopilot to remove the 3 crew and now you have a few hundred
pounds more payload to mess with. perhaps enough for a microsatellite
plus booster to get it the rest of the way?

I you're thinking of carrying pax with an autopilot flying the vehicle,
I suspect that the FAA is going to object somewhat.

If just for hardware payloads, I don't see what this has over something
like Pegasus.

I'm guessing the Y prize is next.

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Cheers


Dave Kearton

"N329DF" wrote in message
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Look what Lindberg did. He knew that if his flight was a success,
that it would spark the imagination of others and help make
transatlantic travel routine. He was right, and Rutan and the other
X plane competators have the same idea as Lindberg. It may take
a number years, but it will happen.


Lindbergh's accomplishment was not the first nonstop flight between New York
and Paris in a civil aircraft, it was the first nonstop flight between New
York and Paris PERIOD. It sparked the imagination of others because it was
a first, and that spark advanced aviation. But the X Prize isn't going to
advance spaceflight, spaceflight has already moved well beyond manned
suborbital flight.

"Peter Kemp" wrote in message
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Add an autopilot to remove the 3 crew and now you have a
few hundred pounds more payload to mess with. perhaps enough
for a microsatellite plus booster to get it the rest of the way?


If you did that you'd be duplicating Pegasus, which has already put a few
dozen small satellites in orbit.

Let me try again.

How do we get to permanent self-sustaining colonies on
one or more moons or planets without government funding?

Let me try again.

How do we get to permanent self-sustaining colonies on
one or more moons or planets without government funding?

Halliburton.