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  1. Re:types of failure; 4 contestants by FleaPlus · · Score: 3, Informative · on NASA to Announce New Commercial Space Partner

    NASA wants two separate companies to develop two separate vehicles capable of unmanned resupply of the ISS in a very short time frame. Now, this is an agency that has access to literally DOZENS of off the shelf rockets. None of them will do.

    Actually, two of the four finalists are proposing to use those already-existing off-the-shelf rockets you mention. If I understand correctly, both Spacehab and PlanetSpace have partnered with Lockheed Martin in order to use their currently-existing rockets.

    For future reference, since it wasn't mentioned in the original submission, here are the four finalists (info from rlvnews.com:

    - Spacehab
    - Andrews Space
    - Orbital Sciences
    - PlanetSpace

  2. Curiouser and curiouser by LeadSongDog · · Score: 1 · on Nova Scotia to Build Space Tourist Launchpad

    Comparing http://www.planetspace.org/pdf/PressRelease121505.pdf2005 to http://www.planetspace.org/pdf/PressRelease020107.pdf2007 we see that they can't even decide how many V2 engines it'll take to lift the sucker. Or maybe they decided that they could find skinnier astronauts on CBI.

  3. Curiouser and curiouser by LeadSongDog · · Score: 1 · on Nova Scotia to Build Space Tourist Launchpad

    Comparing http://www.planetspace.org/pdf/PressRelease121505.pdf2005 to http://www.planetspace.org/pdf/PressRelease020107.pdf2007 we see that they can't even decide how many V2 engines it'll take to lift the sucker. Or maybe they decided that they could find skinnier astronauts on CBI.

  4. Canadian Planetspace: public flights within 2 yrs by toby · · Score: 3, Informative · on 20k Down Can Get You Up Into Space
    Today's Toronto Star has an article (apparently not online) about the heated competition in "space tourist" ventures, and highlighted the London, Ontario, firm Planetspace, which believes it could be the earliest to offer public flights.

    Funded by Dr Chirinjeev Kathuria, they see the secret to success as a modernised liquid oxygen/alcohol rocket motor based on the German V2, which proved its reliability in over 3,000 past flights (more history via that web page). The company uses the Canadian Arrow Space Centre.