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Check out this trolling: the final sentence of the article says "AXE astronauts may even beat their SpaceX counterparts to microgravity" (in an XCOR Lynx rocket
by jholman 14y ago
Check out this trolling: the final sentence of the article says "AXE astronauts may even beat their SpaceX counterparts to microgravity" (in an XCOR Lynx rocketplane). As in Axe body spray. Uh huh.
This is trolling because
a) that's a suborbital spaceplane (which the mention, but don't emphasize), which is obviously a much lower bar
b) the Lynx Mk I hasn't even started flight tests yet, as far as I can tell from their press releases
c) really, if they want to talk about suborbital space tourism (which is what the Lynx is), isn't Virgin Galactic the market leader here? probably?
d) you really think that if SpaceX wants to do crewed orbits by 2015, they won't be booking time on a Vomit Comet long before then (and thus logging microgravity time)? seriously?
- lutorm 14y agoHehe, yeah. By that standard astronaut Mike Melvill already beat those SpaceX astronauts by more than 10 years...