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Peter Lucas: U.S. program lost in space
Lowell Sun ^
| 12/27/13
| Peter Lucas
Posted on 12/27/2013 10:22:50 AM PST by luke1825
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To: SunkenCiv
True. The first European to set foot in the New World (and make it stick) spoke Italian.
Lots of Italian speaking countries in the western hemisphere to this day, no?
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12/28/2013 5:55:33 PM PST
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null and void
(I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
To: RKV
Yessir, SpaceX absolutely operates both gummit and private. The part that launches privately manufactured communications satellites are private, and nobody disputes that. Private communications satellites have been a money making business for 30 years.
We were talking about spacefilght specifically, and so far Scaled Composites and Virgin Galatic haven't made a spaceflight yet, just high altitude thrill rides. SpaceX wouldn't be making a capsule if it wasn't being paid to do so by a government initiated contract.
I'm still waiting for the Pan American shuttle flight to the Hilton Space Hotel I was promised in 1968.
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posted on
12/28/2013 6:24:31 PM PST
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Yo-Yo
To: Yo-Yo
Nobody told you that you’d have to be a billionaire to afford the Hilton in space? Qu’elle domage!
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12/28/2013 7:24:49 PM PST
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RKV
(He who has the guns makes the rules)
To: null and void
Exactly. The next time an American walks on the moon he’s going to be asked for a passport, by someone speaking Chinese.
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12/28/2013 7:31:37 PM PST
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Ramius
(Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
To: SunkenCiv
Cut the Chicoms a little slack. It was not easy to calculate the right amount of black powder to soft land a probe on the moon.
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12/28/2013 7:43:00 PM PST
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Conspiracy Guy
(Did the ancients know they were ancients? Or did they see themselves as presents?)
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