Posted on 05/07/2006 11:34:18 AM PDT by KevinDavis
LOS ANGELES, California – Leaders of two private space ventures that suffered failures vowed today to try, try again.
Louis Friedman, Executive Director of The Planetary Society based in Pasadena, California, said that they are proceeding with a privately-backed Cosmos 2 solar sail effort.
The earlier Cosmos 1 sail was launched skyward on June 21 of last year atop a Russian sub-launched Volna rocket. But the submarine-launched booster’s first stage shut off, with the mission failing some 83 seconds into flight, Friedman told attendees of the International Space Development Conference (ISDC) that began today.
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Hard to believe the Planetary Society is still in existance. I used to be a member for many years but they just got flat out weird.
I use to be a member myself....
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