Well the Chinese got the hardware and software from the us (violations)
from a company that was putting up a bird and they didn't want crashes like
the Chinese were getting...

Martin
Martin Eastburn
@ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net
NRA LOH, NRA Life
NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder



Guy Fawkes wrote:
wrote:

Thanks, Guy, for your comments on scale. I am not afraid to think big.

Neither is NASA. They are talking about heavy lifters, and they started
this whole self-reproducing machine shop thing back in the 1960's.

A recent proposal for a space elevator could make a lot of difference.

The Dougster


NASA is funny

was it NCSA before?

anyway, USA were the speed kings, X1 etc, but the military ICBMs came
along and NASA went heavy lifter, not winged scramjet, and the rest of
the planet followed.

I'm intrigued that the japanese and chinese and everyone else is
following the "stick it on top of a big rocket" approach to orbit.


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