[FPSPACE] Cosmos 1 Weblog Update - June 23, 2005 19:12 PDT

[Chris Faranetta]

The concept and phase A design of Lunar Prospector was paid for with private money. It was a hybrid funded Discovery class mission.

CF
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Dunbar <brian.dunbar at liftport.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 23:50:08 
To:DSFPortree at aol.com
Cc:cfaranetta at spaceadventures.com, zirconic1 at earthlink.net,       fpspace at friends-partners.org
Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] Cosmos 1 Weblog Update - June 23, 2005 19:12 PDT

DSFPortree at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 6/23/2005 4:31:40 PM US Mountain Standard Time, 
> cfaranetta at spaceadventures.com writes:
> 
> 
>>SS1 was a successful low cost private mission and Lunar Prospector was a 
>>privately defined mission and spacecraft design flown by NASA. 
> 
> 
> I don't know what SS1 is, I'm afraid. Was it an exploration mission? As for 
> LP, wasn't it a Discovery mission? Hence, government funded and reviewed, so 
> not private.

I surmise 'SS1' refers to SpaceShipOne from Scaled Composites.

http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/


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