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Kristian von Bengston's New Goal: The Moon
Kristian von Bengtson, co-founder of DIY manned space program Copenhagen Suborbitals (which he left in 2014) writes with this pithy plug for his newest venture: "This year, we (a great crew) have been preparing for the next adventure with a mission plan going public Oct 1. Go sign up and join the project at moonspike.com." (You may want to check out our video inteview with von Bengston; he's a person who gets things done.)
If he names the ship 'Alice' I'll consider a donation.
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It's geeks having fun, and launching a suborbital rocket as a private non-profit doing this for fun is quite an achievement.
...can you at least give me a link to an "About" page? Maybe a paragraph talking about what you're expecting to do? It's a beautiful content-free single-page website, but come on, throw us a bone here.
People who "get things done" often are cowboys who disregard things like safety, reliability, employee morale, etc and many times are also bullies. ... it's the end result of a decades long race to the bottom and I'm really not even sure we've reached it yet.
They are admired in the arena of balls-out capitalism because such tactics often produce good results over the short term at the expense of long term success. Of course these days a long term planning horizon might be a whole calendar year out, and the MBA's who run things don't plan on being around any particular company longer than that
You cannot pretend to "Get things done" until you have achieved the promised milestones. Before aiming for the moon he needs to perform a manned suborbital flight to be taken seriously.
Democracy is a sheep and two wolves deciding what to have for lunch. Freedom is a well armed sheep contesting the issue
It would have be an even bigger achievement, if any of the launches had been a success. None of them have reached their goal.
But they have had launches. That is more than I can say about a few other people, including many posting here on slashdot.
He is just as duped about Mars One as all of the "spaceflight participants" that have signed up. His involvement there is mainly to make Mars One look good, not the other way around.
Critics don't have to show proof they can do better. I'm pretty sure the overwhelming majority of those who said Star Wars 1 was bad can't produce a better movie.
And most people on Slashdot don't launch rockets either. It's quite relevant to the argument that someone should receive special consideration because they do launch rockets.
That is not true. All launches so far have been test launches, testing some technology or other. Many flights have not been complete successes, but all have produced valuable data for use further down the line. The two founders leaving CS (and the turmoil leading up to that) have set them back a year or two, but they seem to have regrouped and from the outside it seems as if they're on a much more solid path than before. I've donated $ 25. This weekend they have a (test) launch planned of their Nexø 1 liquid fueled rocket. They'll stream the launch live, from their mobile launch platform from somewhere in the Baltic Sea. That "normal" (I wouldn't call them quite normal, but still...) can just do this shows that we live in fantastic times, I think.