To: deport
The last thing you want in exploring space is a shoe string budget.
5 posted on
02/23/2020 7:20:27 AM PST by
xp38
To: xp38
The last thing you want in exploring space is a shoe string budget. and a "steam powered rocket"
9 posted on
02/23/2020 7:24:03 AM PST by
Robe
(A nation can survive its fools and evet n the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
To: xp38
The last thing you want in exploring space is a shoe string budget.
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And 5,000 feet isn’t space. There are better ways to get to that altitude.
10 posted on
02/23/2020 7:24:15 AM PST by
Moonman62
(Charity comes from wealth.)
To: xp38
The last thing you want in exploring space is a shoe string budget.
- For a few hundred bucks, he could have bought himself a flight to 50,000 feet and received a free beverage and bag of pretzels while he enjoyed the view.
To: xp38
Hold on here, I think somebody forgot to hook the parachute up.
57 posted on
02/23/2020 9:55:31 AM PST by
cabbieguy
("I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up"can't be counted)
To: xp38
"The last thing you want in exploring space is a shoe string budget." The Old Negro Space Program
Burt Rutan won the X-Prize with his space program funded by $25 million of Paul Allen's money. Definitely NOT chump change, but dirt cheap as far as anything aerospace goes.
Black Sky The Race for Space
(Of course having the nickname of "Mad Mike" may have been an indication that all may not go well....)

58 posted on
02/23/2020 10:18:25 AM PST by
BwanaNdege
( Experience is the best teacher, but if you can accept it 2nd hand, the tuition is less!)
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