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One possibility is that he realizes he won't be taken up on the offer, which also means that there's no chance he'll be tested on it. In the meantime, free publ

• marktangotango 10y ago
  Indeed, Musk is a showman. Early in spacex they put a falcon 1 on a trailer and drove it to Washington, D.C. Essentially a privately funded and built ballistic missile, on a trailer, in front of the capital building. That turned some heads. This was before it flew so 2002 or 2003.
  • lorenzhs 10y ago
    For more on that story, see http://www.thespacereview.com/article/70/1 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/70/1 (article has two pages, link to the second at the very bottom)
    • mmjaa 10y ago
      >The second stage of the Falcon 5 will be similar to the Falcon 1, and the Falcon 5 will sport a larger payload fairing, three meters in diameter. Like the Falcon 1, the Falcon 5’s first stage is designed to be recoverable, and hopefully reusable. Truly amazing how far we have come from the era described in that article. Now, we're on the aphelion .. indeed, Musk has landed his rockets safely, successfully now. /back-on-topic: I think Musk might have something with the e-shingle concept, in the Australian market. All he'd have to do is open-source the thing, and provide some capital incentives to build a few fabricators in the Australian deserts, closer to the source of the materials needed..
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