Comments on: On the air https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/on-the-air-5/ Fri, 29 Mar 2013 22:44:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Robert Zimmerman https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/on-the-air-5/#comment-89661 Fri, 29 Mar 2013 22:44:56 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=22530#comment-89661 In reply to Dick Eagleson.

In connection with Vandenberg, I never claim to know everything. In fact, I quite admit that the more I learn, the less I really know.

As for XCOR, I have many reasons to remain skeptical, too complex to go into here. Moreover, I generally think that my skepticism here is useless. Better to wish them well and hope they succeed. Thus, I generally follow the policy with XCOR that if I have nothing good to say, I say nothing at all.

]]> By: Dick Eagleson https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/on-the-air-5/#comment-89652 Fri, 29 Mar 2013 21:24:21 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=22530#comment-89652 Found most of what you had to say pretty much in accord with my own notions. I was a bit surprised at your comments about XCOR. Do you have anything other than gut feel to go on with respect to your dim view of Chez Greason? Of all the NewSpace “garage shops” out there, XCOR has always struck me as being fairly credible in that they’ve managed to remain a going concern for quite awhile, have actually grown revenue and headcount while resisting the doubtless occasionally very real urge to bite off more than can be chewed, and have done a notably better job of managing expectations and not over-promising than certain flamboyant British billionaires I could name.

I will also confess to being more than a mite flabbergasted at your apparent ignorance of the fact that Vandenberg AFB has been anything but the ghost town you evidently imagined it to be for the past several decades. Really? You do your general credibility no favors when you put howlers like that out in the world.

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