[extropy-chat] Huygens: First visitor to Titan

[Stephen Van_Sickle]

--- Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:

> There's no science to be done in suborbital flights.
> It's all been done in
> 1960s with Laika et al.

Really?  Then why did Nasa alone launch 87 sounding
rockets in the last 4 years?

http://www.wff.nasa.gov/~code810/SRBlueBook.htm

ESA seems to have an active suborbital program as
well.

http://spaceflight.esa.int/users/file.cfm?filename=facsrockets
 
> SpaceShipOne isn't even a suborbital flight. 

It wasn't?  Guess they fooled me.  Sure looked like
it.

Seemed that it fooled some other people, too, who
wanted to book it for science flights.

http://www.spacetoday.net/weblog/entry.php?id=260
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3722596.stml

Which is all moot, since "per minute" is a very silly
figure of merit for science.