SpaceX sets February 6 for first Falcon Heavy launch attempt
Capitalism in space: SpaceX has now scheduled February 6 as the date for its first attempt to launch its Falcon Heavy rocket.
I was amused by this tidbit from the article:
While a launch date has been set, the company still faces a regulatory obstacle ahead of the launch. The Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation has not yet issued a launch license for the Falcon Heavy, a requirement for a commercial launch such as this. Such licenses are often issued days ahead of a launch.
I dare the FAA to deny this launch a license. I just dare them.
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Capitalism in space: SpaceX has now scheduled February 6 as the date for its first attempt to launch its Falcon Heavy rocket.
I was amused by this tidbit from the article:
While a launch date has been set, the company still faces a regulatory obstacle ahead of the launch. The Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation has not yet issued a launch license for the Falcon Heavy, a requirement for a commercial launch such as this. Such licenses are often issued days ahead of a launch.
I dare the FAA to deny this launch a license. I just dare them.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
We will see the battle for access to space right here, right now. It is long overdue.
The moment the govt. says no, Elon will break ground on a new facility.
No license no launch – new facility or no
This will be the first SpaceX launch that I will go out of my way to watch for a long time. There is a lot of drama in the first flights/landings but there is also a lot of schedule slippage that makes trying to watch one a crap shoot. I am prepared for there to be no launch.
Michael, there are plenty of island countries that would love to have their own space program. No licence just takes the FAA out of the picture.
Govt. has its place. What most don’t realize is that place is not to tell us what we can or can’t do. England learned that lesson in 1776. America is working hard to relearn that lesson today (with more powerful fireworks.)
CA is working on their 1860 lesson.
ken–
ref; “CA is working on their 1860 lesson.”
>Good stuff!
Alanis Morissette –
Ironic
https://youtu.be/Jne9t8sHpUc
Ken
This is true with respect to island countries. That’s where ITAR comes in.
Don’t get me wrong. I am a strong supporter of SpaceX. I do not trust the government, to include NASA. SpaceX (and some others) is on the verge of making NASA irrelevant with the exception of unmanned science and planetary type missions, and maybe technology development.
NASA is starting to become aware of this and bureaucracies will do anything to survive.
I sometimes think that NASA should go back to the NACA model.
I think we agree in the essentials but I guess I maybe be more paranoid that you.
yes, NASA needs to be NASRO – National Aero Space Research Office for technology development and another organisation called Office of Solar System Exploration – OSSE
Right Mike, but remember, it ain’t really paranoia if they really are out to get ya!
Watch what entirely predictable happens on mars. First they don’t care. Then when people make it valuable hey’ll claim to own it (for all of mankind’s bureaucrats.)