While watching the pre-launch, and listening to NASA comment on the rocket and its sub-systems, I am left wondering how it feels to be NASA looking at something which previously only they and the DoD could muster.
Will be a strange new world when one can put 'what ever they want' into orbit if they have the cash. Yes, I know that up to now that has been handled by 'the brotherhood' (this is what I heard a Lockheed engineer call the set of public and private actors that were the components of the US space program).
I'm really excited to someone putting up the ULA long duration vehicle [1] (an internal combustion engine in space, how cool is that?) and depots with fuel for things to move around. That will be a new day indeed.
Will be a strange new world when one can put 'what ever they want' into orbit if they have the cash. Yes, I know that up to now that has been handled by 'the brotherhood' (this is what I heard a Lockheed engineer call the set of public and private actors that were the components of the US space program).
I'm really excited to someone putting up the ULA long duration vehicle [1] (an internal combustion engine in space, how cool is that?) and depots with fuel for things to move around. That will be a new day indeed.
[1] http://www.ulalaunch.com/site/docs/publications/Integrated%2...