Re:Boeing CEO Vows to Beat Musk to Mars
by wtallis on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @04:12PM
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For the moment, I suppose you can still make a case for casual use of the term "spaceship" to include suborbital flights. I doubt that will continue for very long as private orbital spacecraft and launch vehicles become less novel; the sub-orbital minor leagues probably won't be seen by most as being the "real thing".
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Re:Boeing CEO Vows to Beat Musk to Mars
by njloof on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @04:36PM
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Just ask Alan Shepard. You know, the first American in space?
Re:Boeing CEO Vows to Beat Musk to Mars
by blacksmith_tb on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @05:12PM
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Presumably because in this sense, the Mercury wasn't "his spaceship" as he didn't own it or the organization that produced it (like Gagarin and the Vostok, for that matter).