[AR] Re: an anniversary

  • From: Ben Reytblat <b.reytblat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2018 20:36:32 -0400

And Rotary Rocket and Aleta Jackson.

I'd count Xcor in there too. Although they were not VTVL, some of the people there came from DC-X, by way of RR.

Ben


On 08/18/2018 08:00 PM, Rand Simberg wrote:

I remember driving out from LA to see it. Stayed in a ten-buck motel in Deming. Hard to believe it's been five years since the twentieth and the commemoration at Spaceport America, and in Alamagordo. We've lost Bill Gaubatz since the. I'm fortunate that he signed my DC-X model (as well as Jess). Wonder how many others we've lost since then? They paved the way for first Masten and Armadillo, then SpaceX and Blue Origin.

On 2018-08-18 16:45, Henry Spencer wrote:
25 years ago today, DC-X flew for the first time.  Alas, our
optimistic hopes then for fundamental change in space launch have not
come true... at least not yet.

Henry


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