Re: Rotary Starts Production

[Peter Wainwright <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sam Coniglio wrote:
> 
> Peter:
> 
> At 01:23 PM 7/23/98 +0100, you wrote:
> >On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Sam Coniglio wrote:
> >
> >> As a certain Vorlon once said,
> >>
> >> "And so it begins..."
> >
> >You want to be careful with implied analogies like this you know. I mean,
> >who does that make the Shadows, huh? Right...
> 
> We all know who the Shadows are.  Their name has 4 letters.  :-)
> 
> >
> >> It is very exciting to be aware of history in the making.  This time next
> >> year, the world will be taken by surprise.  A wave of public interest in
> >> space travel will soon crest.  We need to get ready to surf that wave when
> >> it comes.
> >
> >Maybe so, but I think Kistler may get there first. I dunno, you stand
> >around for ages and then a whole bunch come along at once.
> 
> If Kistler is first, the general public will not be interested.  The press
> wants human stories.  Stories like "Maverick Rocket Man Makes First Private
> Space Flight" get people excited. Kistler's flight will be a nice
> technology achievement, but it will only get as much press as Orbital
> Sciences did when they first launched Pegasus.

Oh, I don't know. First, this would be a case of a small aerospace company
doing what the big boys claimed wasn't possible - after all Rotary, Kelly,
Pioneer et al aren't planning to put a human in a vehicle any time soon
either. Second, the US press at least ought to pick up the 'Australia
picks up America's thwarted entrepreneurs and runs with them' angle.

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