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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
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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.)
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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.)
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”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.


56 posted on 02/23/2020 9:53:39 AM PST by joethedrummer
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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)
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"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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