But now it's the whole gamut, from suborbital to interplanetary. FH was
incremental, yes, but one heck of a big increment. For Elon to pursue his
dream of colonizing Mars, he doesn't have to kneel before the altar of
NASA/ULA/ESA etc. You could argue that just getting out to the orbit of
Mars isn't really interplanetary landing capability, and that's a fair
argument. Still much to do. Whether it's historic or not will depend on
what happens next.
On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 6:48 PM, Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Sat, 10 Feb 2018, Paul Mueller wrote:
Not the Second Coming, true, but a pretty respectable Reformation. The
established Church (governments, large aerospace contractors/consortia) no
longer controls the path to heaven.
Uh, it hasn't for some time, actually. This isn't some radically new
development; it's just a particularly conspicuous example of something
that's been happening for a while now.
Henry