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Re: What's Going On Out There

To: DrMayf <drmayf@teknett.com>, land-speed@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: Re: What's Going On Out There
From: Chris Harris <yesford@clear.net.nz>
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 10:59:10 +1200
That inflatable space station sounds interesting Dr Mayf.
Has NASA missed something simple perhaps ?

Chris H...............New Zealand.


> Yeah, the NASA channel carried th elive webcast. It was cool. However,
Burt
> (actually a contemporary of mine at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo), has not
> really developed a space ship. In the first flight, the pilot released a
> handful of M&Ms to show no gravity. Well it was just in free fall, same as
> the vomit comet 707 0f NASA. It is a great acheivement never the less and
I
> hope he wins the 10 million. The billionaire is Bill Gates co-founder.
> On a different not, the guy I worked for a short while her in Las Vegas
has
> posted a 50 million dollar prize for any company that can deveklop and fly
a
> cheap system to carry people to and from his inflatable space station..






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