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There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now.
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WindBourne (631190)

  second COTs selection to be delayed?[->] 2007-12-19 23:45 WindBourne

Submitted by WindBourne on Wednesday December 19 2007, @11:45PM
WindBourne writes "Rocketplane Kistler threatened NASA or pay them another 10 million or else they would involve Congress. Apparently, the house of rep. are now involved and telling NASA to not chose the next selection until the issue with kistler is resolved. In addition, they are calling for Government Accountability Office to investigate the situation. Finally, the reps are calling for the COTS to be cut by 1/3 and provides only 160M, of the requested 263M. So, the question is, will kistler be able to get by with this blackmail? Will a very real attempt to replace the shuttle be scuttled by the US congress?"
http://www.space.com/news/071219-nasa-cots-bill-delay.html
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Submitted by WindBourne on Tuesday August 14 2007, @02:38AM
WindBourne writes "Apparently, bigelow feels that they have enough testing on the space station exterior, so are canceling the galaxy. OTH, they are going to speed up the delivery of the Sundancer, which will be human rated. Now, the question is, how long will it take and who will launch it. Bigelow still has a launch time with Spacex in 2010."
http://bigelowaerospace.com/multiverse/news.php#update
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  Spacex has flight review of Falcon I[->] 2007-06-15 17:06 WindBourne

Submitted by WindBourne on Friday June 15 2007, @05:06PM
WindBourne writes "Spacex has finally come up with a flight review of the last falcon flight (pdf — sorry). Apparently, 8 anomalies were uncovered, with none requiring a major re-design. The question remains of will the next launch be on-schedule or be slipped?"
http://spacex.com/F1-DemoFlight2-Flight-Review.pdf
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  Ever wondered how it feels to be a billionare? 2007-05-27 23:53 WindBourne

Submitted by WindBourne on Sunday May 27 2007, @11:53PM
WindBourne writes "Here is an excellent story about Elon Musk and watching his 2'nd launch. Elon Musk is betting his 2x fortunes for the chance to put mankind into orbit CHEAP. Even now, his timing could not be better. It appears that America will be without a man-rated launcher (again) for at least several years. Spacex could be the only American player during that time. If so, then he will be launching not just people to the ISS, but to multiple Bigelow space ships and doing cargo. But then again, with another failure or 2, he may end up broker than he was at age 12. Now the question is, will he also be able to build a launcher that is cheaper and bigger than the planned ares V due out in a decade?"
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