Adrian Tymes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Subject: Re: [ERPS] Columbia: Lessons for Private Operators
> David Masten wrote: > > 4. There should always be another vehicle ready for (and capable of) a > > rescue mission. > > It would be a huge > PR boost to send up one of our craft to bail NASA, or whomever else, out > when theirs breaks down in orbit - though this would hopefully be a rare > event. (If nothing else, if we do wind up rescuing them a lot, why not > just use our vehicles to begin with?) It is interesting that David Burkhardt, who came up with the "Space Cub" suborbital concept *before* X-Prize, wrote an SF novellette on that subject. It was published in _Analog_ sometime in the mid-1990's. Doug Drummond. ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
