Nasa's Myriad Failures Are In Many Ways

I Spent About Seven Years During The Vietnam War Flight-testing Airplanes For The Air Force. And Then I Went In And I Had A Lot Of Fun Building Airplanes That People Could Build In Their Garages. And Some 3,000 Of Those Are Flying. Of Course, One Of Them Is Around-the-world Voyager.

To Allow Public Access To Orbit, We Would Need Breakthroughs That Would Lower The Cost By A Lot More Than An Order Of Magnitude And Increase Safety By A Factor Of 100 As Compared To Every Launch System Used Since The First Manned Space Flight. I Think Airborne Launch Will Be A Significant Part Of The Safety Solution.

The Criticism Is, Once I Get Something Flying, I Lose Interest In It.

There Was A Wonderful Little Short Four-year Time Period When Marvelous Things Happened. It Started In 1908, When The Wright Brothers Flew In Paris, And Everybody Said, 'ooh, Hey, I Can Do That.' There's Only A Few People That Have Flown In Early 1908. In Four Years, 39 Countries Had Hundreds Of Airplanes, Thousands Of Pilots.

No One Knows How To Make Going To Orbit Orders Of Magnitude Safer And Orders Of Magnitude More Affordable.