Re: SPACE: Roton in New Scientist

From: philip witham (p.j.witham@ieee.org)
Date: Tue Aug 04 1998 - 16:17:38 MDT


>> Gary Hudson is a pretty smart guy; if he says he can do it, I think he has
>> a good chance of doing it.

I also hate to be techno-pesimistic, but this is *rockets* you are talking
about. So, I'd like to point out that Gary Hudson has been involved in
many, many rocket projects, all failures. I applaud his determination. In
my opinion, he is a brilliant salesman, and can attract funding to any
rocket project at all. Since his job in this curent endevour is not a
technical one, I am sure he is an asset to the project. In my opinion, all
of his technical ideas of the past were doomed due to a lack of respect for
simplicity, and I am not speaking out of hindsight. For that matter, most
space launch projects suffer the same problem.

-PW



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