I caught Simonyi’s liftoff this morning.
If someone had told me back in the eighties that in 2009, I’d be watching a Soyuz launch from Kazakhstan on the local news, carrying an American millionaire to a (mostly) NASA space station, I’d have thought they were nuts.
If someone had told me in the 1980s that the state of the art in orbital access in 2009 would be a Soyuz, I’d have thought they were nuts.
If someone in the 1980’s told me that Mr. Simonyi was nuts . . . never mind!
If someone had told me in the 1980s that the state of the art in orbital access in 2009 would be a Soyuz, I’d have thought they were nuts.
And then there’s Mike Griffin who talks about Orion as “an American Soyuz” that will be the only way NASA astronauts go into space for the next 40 years.