Five Dollar Gas

> Fred Wrote.
> When? When has corporate enterprise, freed from government regulation,
> built
> a safe rocket? Every rocket ever built has had a government regulator
> looking
> over its shoulder.
>
> 1. Thirty five years in the rocket business. Statement is not true!
> 2. Am I to assume that you believe that only govt can build rockets? All
> their attempts (on their own) to date have been miserable failures.
> 3. Burt Rutan and the space prize?
> 4. Reasonable Specifications and guidelines are necessary -- required --
> just don't let a dysfunctional Bureau evolve. Let Common sense and
> reasonable balance prevail.
> Gary

I reiterate... every rocket ever built (well, since Goddard anyways) has been
subject to government regulation. Burt Rutan would not have been allowed to
fly if the authorities thought his rocket would be a danger to anyone on the ground.