Mackay Says: SpaceShipTwo Will Be “Safe, Reliable Commercial System”
The BBC visits Spaceport America. Safety claim begins at 6:46. Mackay also makes interesting claim about 15 years of development time.
Hey, BBC. If you’re going to visit New Mexico, for the sake of perspective, maybe talk to some of the folks who paid for the spaceport about all the benefits they were promised when they agreed to fund it.
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I hope those words won’t come back to haunt him…
Accidents happen.
Especially to the careless and the arrogant.
That’s the spirit. We can get rid of half a century of advances in safety culture.
They’ve been saying the same thing for 15 years. Time to go out and prove it.
Well, it certainly is safer and more reliable when on the ground for sure.
its safer then Dragon 2…go go go…the future awaits
I take it that SpaceX has to kill people before you will approve of their safety methods?
Like all Old Spacers he is more interested in procedures then results. Safety is more than having an impressive looking safety handbook, its actually finding the bugs and fixing them before anyone is killed by them.
BTW SpaceX has test fired the Super-Dracos over 700 times. Wonder how many times Boeing has fired its abort system?
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/…
There have been well over 700 simulations.
Heh.