The Washington Post has an extensive follow up.
I should note that when I earlier said that I’d known him for thirty years, I didn’t say that I’d been his friend for thirty years. I mention this because I got an email a few days ago from an editor of a Jewish publication in DC, based on that post, who wanted more info from me on the assumption that I was. I didn’t really know him that well — we met in Tucson when I was volunteering for L-5, and he had come back to the U of A to visit from MIT. I ran into him at conferences over the years, but that was pretty much it.
And yes, I haven’t left for Mojave yet. I’m hanging for another few minutes to see if the giant bottle rocket goes off in Florida. It’s currently scheduled for 6AM Pacific. I’ll still have time to beat the traffic over Sepulveda Pass if it’s on time.
[Update a couple minutes later]
OK, just as I was typing that, they slipped to 9:15 EDT, with low confidence of a launch before 10:30. I can’t wait that long, so I guess I’ll miss it.
You’ll miss what? If you want to see model rocket firings, we can get you video.
Well the bottle rocket launched, nice PR timing.
If we assume small high flight rate reusable launch vehicles (SRLV) cost ~$300 million to develop, then this test cost 1.5 SRLV developments.
Say ~$40 billion gets spent on Ares I and V, that will be 133 SRLVs that do not get developed.
Pete, each shuttle _flight_ cost about two well-managed X-vehicle programs.
Thanks for sharing this story here.I would like to share Last month, Mr Nozette was contacted by an undercover FBI agent posing as an Israeli intelligence officer, whom he allegedly told he would be willing to regularly answer questions about classified information in exchange for money and an Israeli passport.Over the course of the next month, the scientist provided letters with answers containing information “classified as both Top Secret and Secret that concerned US satellites, early warning systems, means of defence or retaliation against large-scale attack, communications intelligence information, and major elements of defence strategy”, the justice department said.