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Tim wrote:
You know civilian space travel is coming... https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/12/13/...-of-space.html I would trust Branson and VG a lot more than SpaceX. |
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On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 21:38:56 -0000 (UTC), Bill
wrote: Tim wrote: You know civilian space travel is coming... https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/12/13/...-of-space.html I would trust Branson and VG a lot more than SpaceX. === Perhaps, but who's offering the better ride? I'd want to orbit at least once - not likely to happen however. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com |
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On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 21:38:56 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Tim wrote: You know civilian space travel is coming... https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/12/13/...-of-space.html I would trust Branson and VG a lot more than SpaceX. === Perhaps, but who's offering the better ride? I'd want to orbit at least once - not likely to happen however. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com Safer ride. |
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On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 22:46:55 -0000 (UTC), Bill
wrote: wrote: On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 21:38:56 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Tim wrote: You know civilian space travel is coming... https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/12/13/...-of-space.html I would trust Branson and VG a lot more than SpaceX. === Perhaps, but who's offering the better ride? I'd want to orbit at least once - not likely to happen however. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com Safer ride. === I'm sure a quick parabolic arc to the edge of space would be exciting but for my money I'd want to orbit. |
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On Thursday, December 13, 2018 at 10:37:04 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 22:46:55 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: wrote: On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 21:38:56 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Tim wrote: You know civilian space travel is coming... https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/12/13/...-of-space.html I would trust Branson and VG a lot more than SpaceX. === Perhaps, but who's offering the better ride? I'd want to orbit at least once - not likely to happen however. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com Safer ride. === I'm sure a quick parabolic arc to the edge of space would be exciting but for my money I'd want to orbit. I'd be OK with a ride in the Vomit Comet. |
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On Thursday, December 13, 2018 at 3:17:29 PM UTC-5, Tim wrote:
You know civilian space travel is coming... https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/12/13/...-of-space.html It's not the same thing, but back in the 90's I was into high power rocketry. During that time frame there were 3 guys that got together and built an amateur rocket that flew to the edge of space. It was a boosted dart, which means the bottom part was a big, fat rocket motor and the top was a skinny but heavy small rocket with no motor. When the lower stage burns out the upper stage drag separates and keeps going (from inertia) until gravity does its thing. They launched it in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. It had a downward looking camera with a RF downlink for video and telemetry. It hit mach 3.something, and the dart traveled to a bit over 50 miles. I can't find it now, but there used to be a video showing the flight. You saw the earth fall away, and when it hit apogee (arced over), you saw the curvature of the earth and then tons of stars. Unfortunately, it came in ballistic and impacted a few miles downrange. Even with a backhoe, they only recovered a few bits. The story was it took them over a year to build it, and it cost one of the guys his marriage. |
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Its Me wrote:
On Thursday, December 13, 2018 at 3:17:29 PM UTC-5, Tim wrote: You know civilian space travel is coming... https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/12/13/...-of-space.html It's not the same thing, but back in the 90's I was into high power rocketry. During that time frame there were 3 guys that got together and built an amateur rocket that flew to the edge of space. It was a boosted dart, which means the bottom part was a big, fat rocket motor and the top was a skinny but heavy small rocket with no motor. When the lower stage burns out the upper stage drag separates and keeps going (from inertia) until gravity does its thing. They launched it in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. It had a downward looking camera with a RF downlink for video and telemetry. It hit mach 3.something, and the dart traveled to a bit over 50 miles. I can't find it now, but there used to be a video showing the flight. You saw the earth fall away, and when it hit apogee (arced over), you saw the curvature of the earth and then tons of stars. Unfortunately, it came in ballistic and impacted a few miles downrange. Even with a backhoe, they only recovered a few bits. The story was it took them over a year to build it, and it cost one of the guys his marriage. I always loved rockets. We built a bunch of aluminum tube rockets powered by zinc- sulfur. We used to fire them at the Albany, CA police range when no one was around. Probably go to jail these days for doing that. |
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On Friday, December 14, 2018 at 12:19:15 PM UTC-5, Bill wrote:
Its Me wrote: On Thursday, December 13, 2018 at 3:17:29 PM UTC-5, Tim wrote: You know civilian space travel is coming... https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/12/13/...-of-space.html It's not the same thing, but back in the 90's I was into high power rocketry. During that time frame there were 3 guys that got together and built an amateur rocket that flew to the edge of space. It was a boosted dart, which means the bottom part was a big, fat rocket motor and the top was a skinny but heavy small rocket with no motor. When the lower stage burns out the upper stage drag separates and keeps going (from inertia) until gravity does its thing. They launched it in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. It had a downward looking camera with a RF downlink for video and telemetry. It hit mach 3.something, and the dart traveled to a bit over 50 miles. I can't find it now, but there used to be a video showing the flight. You saw the earth fall away, and when it hit apogee (arced over), you saw the curvature of the earth and then tons of stars. Unfortunately, it came in ballistic and impacted a few miles downrange. Even with a backhoe, they only recovered a few bits. The story was it took them over a year to build it, and it cost one of the guys his marriage. I always loved rockets. We built a bunch of aluminum tube rockets powered by zinc- sulfur. We used to fire them at the Albany, CA police range when no one was around. Probably go to jail these days for doing that. Do a search for high power rocketry. You'd be amazed at what's available and what hobbyist are doing with it. To fly the big stuff you have to be a member of a rocketry association (NRA or Tripoli) and have your field registered with the FAA. Then you have to give them advance notice of when you're going to launch, and you are altitude limited depending on your geographic situation. At least that's how it worked when I was active. The biggest thing I built and flew was 6 inches in diameter, stood over 8 feet tall and weighed about 25 pounds. It used a cluster of 5 motors. The biggest cluster I flew in it had 4 times the power (specific impulse in newton-seconds) of a military Stinger shoulder-launched missile. It was good for a little over 8,000 feet. The propellant used is ammonium perchlorate. Basically the same stuff as the solid rocket boosters on the space shuttle. Expensive hobby. |
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