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Getting Into The Private Space Race

Posted by timothy on from the go-fast-don't-turn-left dept.

powerbarr writes "This article has an excellent description of the issues of getting into the rocket industry without government funding and focuses on one startup that is doing it. Sea Launch is a subsidiary of American, Russian, Ukrainian, and Norwegian companies that has cheaper, more accurate, and more reliable launch system that is trying to compete with all the government sponsored systems that are more expensive and less reliable."

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  1. Let's Slashdot Outer Space by stoborrobots · · Score: 3, Funny

    All us techies can get together, launch in to outer space, and knock the "bad people" out with our open source rockets!!! ;-)

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    1. Re:Let's Slashdot Outer Space by Dr.+Photo · · Score: 4, Funny

      All us techies can get together, launch in to outer space, and knock the "bad people" out with our open source rockets!!! ;-)

      1. Cramped quarters in space craft.
      2. Stale, recycled oxygen.
      3. Elbow-to-elbow with hundreds of geeks; many having personal hygiene no better than you or I!
      4. Male-to-female ratio: let's just say a rounding error could kill off the species.
      5. "Open source rockets" would be a terrible way to thank the thousands of people who eagerly volunteered to help you pack.

  2. Repeat competition comments from previous article by stoborrobots · · Score: 3, Funny

    #include "http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/ 03/2322221"

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  3. Kinda cool! by macdaddy357 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does this remind anyone else of S.A.L.V.A.G.E.?

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