[ExI] spacex signs contract for falcon heavy

[Brent Allsop]

Hi Spike,

Definitely cool.

But the Saturn V rocket was more powerful right?  You mean the worlds
most powerful rocket, currently available for hire?

Brent

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 1:59 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
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> Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), which designs and launches rockets
> as well as spacecraft, said on Tuesday it signed the first commercial
> contract to launch the world's most powerful rocket.
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> http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/05/30/spacex-signs-contract-to-launch-worlds-most-powerful-rocket/?intcmp=trending
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> Excellent, good luck SpaceX.
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> This is what we have needed for a long time.  When the government builds
> rockets, they intentionally spread the work across as many states as
> possible, to get the congress members to buy in.  This is inefficient and
> expensive.  Having a single company do the rocket gets around that problem.
> I have renewed hope of lower cost launches.  The question now is whether it
> is low enough to do more and better stuff in space.  That remains an open
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> spike
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