[FPSPACE] Is Tito go for orbit?

[Dwayne Allen Day]

On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Keith Gottschalk wrote:

> While Energia needs the $$ now, some bank will oan them something
> against am excrow account - but not of course at prime rate.

I think Energia could get a loan.  MirCorp would have a harder time.  But
I think that MirCorp only gets a small percentage anyway--a "finder's
fee."


>   I think Dan Goldin is 
> 
> a) being ungracious to a veteran JPL -  NASA  employee;

A super-rich former-NASA employee.  It's a little hard to feel sorry for a
guy with a mansion in Pacific Palisades.


>  b) dog-in-the-manger attitude to "space passengers". How can one
> passenger on a passenger jet "endanger" the crew? In any disaster, the
> worst that can happen is that physical frailty means he will be left
> behind.  Thie "passenger" has enough technology life skills to
> appreciate not to touch what you are told not to touch. That like all
> passengers you are under captain's orders.

My guess is that Goldin's statement covered a lot of things.  The NASA
astronaut corps probably still has vivid memories of flying with all kinds
of passengers in the early 80s.  They don't want to have a repeat of the
Jake Garn experience.



DDAY