Doug Messier has a history of early aviation, and Virgin Galactic.
5 thoughts on “Prizes, Technology, And Safety”
It’s like Doug doesn’t even remember the giggle factor of private human spaceflight prior to SpaceShipOne. I know it’s hard to keep that in mind, what with us entering the second decade of little to no progress and all.
Doug has this fixed idea. He sees the rapid progress made during the X-Prize and Lunar Lander Challenge, and the relatively slow progress since that time (with no follow-up prizes) and concludes the problem is caused by — prizes!
Rather like the man whose car runs out of gas in the middle of the desert and blames gas stations.
The GLXP really has been a bridge too far.
Which is completely irrelevant. The GLXP is not, and was not intended to be, a follow-on to the X-Prize.
I’m still puzzled by the picture of Jim Benson captioned “Air Crash West of Visalia, Calif., 1920s (Credit: Tulare County Library)…
It’s like Doug doesn’t even remember the giggle factor of private human spaceflight prior to SpaceShipOne. I know it’s hard to keep that in mind, what with us entering the second decade of little to no progress and all.
Doug has this fixed idea. He sees the rapid progress made during the X-Prize and Lunar Lander Challenge, and the relatively slow progress since that time (with no follow-up prizes) and concludes the problem is caused by — prizes!
Rather like the man whose car runs out of gas in the middle of the desert and blames gas stations.
The GLXP really has been a bridge too far.
Which is completely irrelevant. The GLXP is not, and was not intended to be, a follow-on to the X-Prize.
I’m still puzzled by the picture of Jim Benson captioned “Air Crash West of Visalia, Calif., 1920s (Credit: Tulare County Library)…