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- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -4/+274Adventure is risky.
Long live the spirit of adventure.
A moment of silence for those lost while moving mankind forward. - ChromaVita, on 10/10/2007, -11/+62I thought it said three Virgins die...
On a more serious note, my thoughts and prayers go out to the family of the deceased. - PiMPSP, on 10/10/2007, -1/+31Hmmm like prev stated adventure is risky, how many astronauts died in NASA missions?
- MasterThief117, on 10/10/2007, -3/+31I could have not said it better any other way.
- dotlizard, on 10/10/2007, -0/+27there are far worse ways to die than doing something important, something you love, something you had to be amongst the best in your field to be doing.
- ViperCTW, on 10/10/2007, -1/+28Very sad. These people are doing dangerous work, but very important work nonetheless. I just hope this doesn't cause too many people to dismiss the idea of privatized space exploration.
- gr0ss, on 10/10/2007, -3/+27As bad as it sounds, they probably signed waivers so the company doesn't get in trouble if they die.
I hope they loved what they were doing, prayers for those lost. - crapmatic, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16"US defence giant Northrop Grumman owns 40% of Scaled and has agreed to buy the rest of it, subject to regulatory approval."
Is it just me or is Lockheed-Martin, Raytheon, Northrop, and Boeing muscling into practically all high-tech industry in the US? - fantasticFlan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1318 from 4 accidents
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_disasters - Gigs, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12If anyone wants to follow details on Scaled Composites/Northrop Grumman and every other private space venture, whoever maintains the blog at www.personalspaceflight.info keeps great track and doesn't have ads. I'll probably get dugg down but its not mine, I dunno who runs it, and its good.
- Hoovooloo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10so when a GM test driver dies, or a nascar driver dies, cars are too dangerous and everyone should stop driving?
All this shows is that SpaceShipTwo had some design flaws--not that the finished product will be too dangerous, or that space travel is inherently too dangerous - lcohiomatty86, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10so i take it that you NEVER drive anywhere for recreation and that your pedaling a bike to power your computer?
- whitehornmatt, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Russia have never lost an _astronaut_
- freehunter, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9Well getting on top of a giant bomb and riding it at the speed of sound to leave the planet isn't really the safest thing, but getting in a thousand pound metal box and letting thousands of explosions right in front of you propel you at 70mph towards hundreds of other thousand pound metal boxes isn't the safest, either, and statistically, is much more dangerous than space travel. When Ford is still getting unexpected failures, fires, explosions, etc, that should be a warning not to drive. But it isn't.
- rspeed, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Yes, let's keep all our eggs in one basket. Surely there won't ever be another mass extinction on Earth.
Why did we even bother populating the New World anyway? There's plenty of empty land in the other continents! - rspeed, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Yeah, because none of them have ever died!
- nick9000, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Apollo 1 was a test
- rspeed, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Uh, statistically space flight is much more dangerous.
- rspeed, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5You're kidding, right?
- valkyries, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6the big four still sub contract out to all the small companies
- lexington86, on 10/10/2007, -3/+7Amen, brother.
- madm0nk, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4You should stick to jerking off to gay porn and eat your cocoa puffs.
- Savor, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Even though NASA still hasn't gotten this whole space traversing stuff down, and this seems far more risky, I'd still go for this thing in an instant if I had the money.
- groonk, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you had better go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid."
- CDoug03, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2If we are ever going to get off this god forsaken planet, we as humanity are going to have to grow some balls and accept failure (such as yesterday) as necessity to pave the road to success. I just hope the support for companies like SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, and Scaled Composites continues into the future.
- tehpwnrate, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Yeah, valkyries is right. It's amazing how many smaller, very concentrated tech companies go into every major thing those big guys do.
- DCesque, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2That sucks. I really hope this doesn't set us too far back in private space travel. The way things are going here, we need more ways to get off the planet not less
- madm0nk, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Yeah ... cuz the Earth is going to last forever .... and the human race should never ever indulge in exploration because that kind of ***** will get us nowhere ....... oh wait .....
- dotlizard, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2why is it not important if it's not NASA? being private enterprise reaching for space travel, to my mind, is far more important. private enterprise might be the thing that saves the space program in general, considering NASA's recent troubles.
early air travel was for those few very rich too, are you going to call those early aviation pioneers human sacrifices to the rich too? hell no, because look how important air travel has become. have some vision. - stigma15, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2As if Richard Branson has personal oversight over every procedure at this facility. He's an investor, not a rocket scientist.
I think people should wait for facts to come in before drawing conclusions.
I don't think this will deter private space travel. If it happened on the launch pad, THAT would be a PR nightmare. - patrickloggins, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2But it's a first step for private space travel, something that would become affordable and possible for the average person. I'd definitely be interested in that.
- stigma15, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2...And by the "launch pad", I mean the back of the jet that carries the ship to 50000ft.
- Prokaryote, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Since when is the Earth a godforsaken planet? Have you looked around lately? There's life everywhere.
- FunkyLlama, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Virgin: almost as bad as Siemens.
- bugsy187, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Let's just make the process safer. Lives were lost, let's not lose the lesson.
- madm0nk, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1No better time than the present.
- 0crabby0, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The big question is why Scaled Composites is doing their own engine tests without Space Dev(SpaceShipOne's engine developer)?
Maybe that's why Rutan sold the remainder of his company? Because Northrop wanted to cut costs by "going it alone?" - madm0nk, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Actually the largest killer of all indigenous people in the "New World" was smallpox, and other common diseases (flu, etc). Which was beyond control, the drawback to being part of a nomadic, relatively disease free civilization is lack of strong immunity to such things. Not that I am saying none of them were killed for senseless, barbaric reasons nor am I condoning those actions in any way.
- themanautomatic, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You found the words i couldn't. I hope these people's deaths are not a deterrent, but an inspiration to make this dream of a project come to life.
- bugsy187, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1"virtually"
- RajMahal77, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You took the words right out of my mouth. Hopefully, Branson will commemorate the first orbital flight in honor of these three.
- sabach, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1And how could I forget...
COL Rick D. Husband (USAF)
CDR William C. McCool (USN)
LT COL Michael P. Anderson (USAF)
CAPT David M. Brown (USN)
Dr. Kalpana Chawla
CDR Laurel B. Clark (USN)
COL Ilan Ramon (Israeli Air Force) - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Hasnt russia lost a crazy amount of astronauts?
- tgulden, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I feel as though we are being manipulated to cringe at the thought of space travel as a whole. With the ISS computer sabotage, the pre-flight alcohol abuse by astronauts, and now a serious blow to the private sector, I feel as though there is some grand conspiracy to prevent us from leaving the planet at all. Anyone with me on this?
- sabach, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You don't get out much do you?
LT COL Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom (USAF)
LT COL Edward H. White II (USAF)
LT CDR Roger B. Chaffee (USN)
Francis R. "Dick" Scobee
CAPT Michael J. Smith (USN)
LT COL Ellison S. Onizuka (USAF)
Dr. Judith A. Resnik
Dr. Ronald E. McNair
Gregory B. Jarvis
S. Christa McAuliffe
Plus quite a few more that died in aircraft accidents. - patrickloggins, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Dugg down? That's a good question!
- fantasticFlan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Just for the sake of argument, the Earth is going to last long enough to delay this until long after any current climate crisis.
- patrickloggins, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Nothing is 100% safe. Do you drive a car?
- inactive, on 12/05/2007, -0/+0
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