[email protected] wrote: > An interesting aside on this. It took the Mercury program a bit over 9 > months to go from the first sub-orbital flight to the first orbital flight. > > The big private enterprise sub-orbital flight happened almost 5 years ago > (5 years this coming November IIRC). It cost 100 million to develop, and > won a prize of 10 million. I can find nothing in development for private > orbital flight. (By private I mean without government money, not government > contractors).
So SpaceX doesn't qualify for your definition of 'private'? http://www.spacex.com/updates.php --[Lance] -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 CACert.org Assurer _______________________________________________ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
