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    To the best of my knowledge, every booster engine qualification program in history has had numerous failures of the kind that recently occurred with Merlin, so this is not unusual.

    Those familiar with the launch business will know that countdown scrubs are a way of life.

    A lot depends on our first launch, ... Even though I really want to launch as soon as possible, I don't want to take any chances. I'd rather be late than sorry.

    Target launch date for Falcon I maiden flight is Halloween (October 31) from our island launch complex in the Kwajalein Atoll. For potential customers out there, I should mention that Kwajalein has some of the worlds best scuba diving and snorkeling It is

    What Space X ultimately contributes to space travel might please the government in other ways. One of the significant innovations of Falcon V is that because it's got five engines on the main stage, it can actually lose an engine and reach orbit safely, ... If the space shuttle were to lose one of its solid rocket boosters the people on the shuttle would be doomed.


    It's been 3 12 years, almost, of very difficult development and we're finally at the stage where we are able to launch and we feel we've done everything we possibly can to ensure that it's a reliable launch.

    Today it costs over a billion dollars for a space shuttle flight. The cost is fundamentally what's holding us back from becoming a space traveling civilization and ultimately a multi-planet species.

    The history of rocket development is one which is replete with failure and where there are very few successes. We hope to be one of those successes, but something that I want to make sure everyone's aware of is that no matter what happens on launch day I feel that we have really been quite successful already.

    There is not a great amount of further development to be done for the heavy versions. We won't spend that money until we have a customer. Then we will do aerodynamic analysis, separation systems, a few things like that.

    I'm very pro-environment, but let's figure out how to do it better and not jump through a dozen hoops to achieve what is obvious in the first place. There should be a categorical exclusion for Falcon just like airplanes that use non-toxic propellants. That would be a huge improvement,

    We're developing two engines. These are state-of-the-art, world-class, world-beating engines. These are not just sort of ho-hum engines.

    In the absence of having NASA as a customer, the amount of money that we'd spend on manned spacecraft is relatively small.

    I cannot predict exactly when the next flight will take place, as that depends on the findings of this investigation and ensuring that our next customer is comfortable that all reasonable steps have been taken to ensure reliability. However, I would hope that the next launch occurs in less than six months.

    We will also do another full review of all the vehicle systems, including propulsion, structures, avionics, software and ground support systems. Therefore, I expect that the earliest that launch would occur is late January. Third time's the charm.

    I think I can say with confidence that we've left no stone unturned. We've made no shortcuts in development. We've done everything we can.

    We have a lot of ways of finding the stage, and we really want to bring it back no matter what shape it's in.

    It is despairing to consider that the cost and reliability of access to space have barely changed since the Apollo era over three decades ago. Yet in virtually every other field of technology, we have made great strides in reducing cost and increasing capability,

    the history of rocket development is replete with failures and very few successes.

    Consistent with our policy, we must be 100 percent green for launch with no outstanding concerns whatsoever. It is not just a matter of repairing the damage, but also understanding at a fundamental level how to ensure it never happens again.

    He'd better be, because the new space race already is under way and competition is shaping up as fierce. Rutan's chief rival may ultimately be Elon Musk. A former Internet mogul who in 2002 sold his online payment company, PayPal, to eBay for 1.5 billion in stock, Musk now runs SpaceX in El Segundo, Calif., which is developing an orbital space vehicle. Musk notes that making it into orbit requires going eight times faster and producing 65 times more rocket energy than a suborbital vehicle like SpaceShipOne. Musk has already put more than 50 million into SpaceX and says he is prepared to invest 50 million more. He expects it to take at least five years to get passengers into orbit. In the meantime, SpaceX is generating revenue by booking orders to launch satellites its first such launch is scheduled for January. Our earned revenue will be 35 million after a little more than two years of operation, ... By comparison, the X-Prize was a one-off of 10 million, and it took Burt something like five years to do it.


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