Randall Clague wrote: > David Weinshenker wrote: > > Does the CATS world count? :) > It was a good technical goal for amateur rocketry. In hindsight, > something that didn't require AST involvement might have been better > suited to the amateur rocketry mindset.
Also, I'm not sure that the "prize" structure of the whole affair was a good idea... rocket folks seem (IMHO) to be rather insular and secretive in general, and setting it all up as a "contest" tended to exacerbate that. > > (I think I pretty much missed out on most of the publicity and politics > > of that whole business - IIRC the prize was in the process of expiring, > > unclaimed, around the time I first got involved with ERPS.) > > You had good timing. It was not a pleasant experience. ERPS got > involved for a while, with Black Adder, a one and a half stage UGLV. 1-1/2 stages? How was that to have worked? You weren't going to use the Atlas configuration and drop off some engines as a tankless "partial stage", were you? > We can thank AST for getting us out of that mess: when we got the 28 > pages of instructions for how to apply for a waiver, we canceled the > project. So it was a "mess" even before the compliance burden became apparent? -dave w _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
