On 7/27/07, Todd Allen toddmallen@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...