On 7/27/07, Todd Allen <toddmallen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
(As to the rest, didn't know you worked there, but
sorry to hear about
it! I hope the ones that were injured recover alright.)
I appear to have given a slightly wrong impression and should clarify;
I don't work for Scaled. I am in the same industry, and it's sort of
small... There are only about 250 people in the world doing the
alternative space access / personal spaceflight / space tourism thing
professionally right now. We mostly all know each other, though I'm
not close aquaintences with any of the 3 fatalities from this
accident.
When I heard about the explosion, the first thing I thought was that
it was [[Masten Space Systems]] who have been out hot-fire testing
their vehicle over the last couple of weeks, and everyone in MSS are
friends of mine. That was an anxious half hour.
Even though it's not my company, I and everyone else I know at all the
other companies are all trying to figure out what happened, and I seem
to be the failure analysis guy.
Anyways, enough...
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-george william herbert
george.herbert(a)gmail.com