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  1. V2ROCKET.COM by westlake · · Score: 1 · on Innovation's Role Is Sorely Exaggerated
    I thought I have heard statements that if the war had lasted just 6 months longer then the V-2s could have changed the face of the war.

    The V-2 had a one-ton warhead and a range of about 200 miles. First used against London in September of 1944. Too little, too late. V2ROCKET.COM

  2. Re:I don't get it by jalefkowit · · Score: 1 · on Prime Human Cloning Researcher Humiliated
    the US hired nuclear, rocket, and aviation scientists.... these were skilled professions who practiced their profession for their country; they cannot be tarred with a single 'Nazi eugenics' brush...

    Yeah, because it's not like those Nazi rocket scientists got all that experience by using slave labor to build rockets to kill civilians in London or anything.

  3. Re:It is not about how much rocket costs.. by brainstyle · · Score: 2, Informative · on Hondas in Space
    Keep in mind that with the SpaceX approach, a lot of the parts they're using aren't custom desgined - unlike what you might find in a traditional rocket. So they have proven reliability. Well, proven reliability on Earth without all that space radiation stuff, but proven relaibility nonetheless.

    Besides, the world's only mass-produced rocket had some reliability issues, from what I understand. So mass production doesn't guarentee it'll be good.

  4. Next step: Rocket by cbx_cbx · · Score: 0 · on Students Design A Satellite Via Internet

    Those guys , or perhaps another group using the same method, could form a reusable http://www.v2rocket.com/V2-like rocket laucher team to put this sattelite into orbit. That way, the full process (Sat/Rocket/Orbit) would be complete, not depending of the Russian/others to put it into orbit...

  5. Re-inventing the wheel by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on X Prize and John Carmack

    What Carmack (Armadillo Aerospace) is proposing is to "re-invent the wheel" every month or so until the deed is done.

    My money's on the Canadian Arrow. Why? The Arrow's based on the German V2 rocket - a tried and tested, 1940's design which was then quite capable of putting a 738kg payload beyond the required 100km altitude - all for the measly sum of 119600 Reichsmarks ($47,840 US in 1940 dollars). Reference:V2 Rocket.com. Trade in the payload for 3 astronauts plus gear, install parachutes to recover the main bits, and the job's done.

    Scaled Composites is my second favorite. Why? Based on another tried and tested design - the Pegasus - first launched 1990. The Pegasus can put a 455kg satellite in low earth orbit (about 150 kilometers up with a net velocity of at least 7,814 m/s ) - not much of a technical breakthrough required to put 3 astronauts up a mere 100 km. Reference:Orbital Pegasus Page
    Also, here's a website that has a downloadable working simulator that illustrates how Scaled Composite's design (SpaceShipOne)works: PRE-Flight Sim Homepage

  6. Re:What did they expect.. by Stephen+Samuel · · Score: 2 · on FBI Arrests 4 College Interns For Stealing Lunar Materials
    Well, they aren't rocket scientists.

    Well, one of them is apparently pretty close...

    # Shae Lynn Saur, NASA intern, Age: 19, Worked in Structural Engineering with Thermal Design. Worked last summer in the X-38 program. Pursuing a B.S. in engineering from Lamar University.
    In any case, there's a big difference between intelligence and wisdom. Remember that Wernher Von Braun was (from what I've heard) pretty brilliant (and probably the reference for the 'rocket scientist' references.. Nontheless, he worked for Hitler in WW2. He either liked what Hitler was up to, or he didn't care enough to slow down his rocket research on the V1 and V2 rockets.