[net.space] Successful private space venture

eugene@ames.UUCP (Eugene Miya) (08/07/84)

I see from the SJ Mercury news that the local Redwood City firm
called Starstruck had their first successful 14 second launch of
their rocket off San Diego.  It was a missile placed in the water
and then launched.  Three prior failures had problems such as water
leakage, and frozen values.

--eugene miya
  NASA Ames Res. Ctr.

lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall) (08/08/84)

In article <ames.455> eugene@ames.UUCP (Eugene Miya) writes:
>I see from the SJ Mercury news that the local Redwood City firm
>called Starstruck had their first successful 14 second launch of
>their rocket off San Diego.  It was a missile placed in the water
>and then launched.  Three prior failures had problems such as water
>leakage, and frozen values.

I should think frozen values would be more of a problem to NASA than
Starstruck.

Larry Wall
{allegra,burdvax,cbosgd,hplabs,ihnp4,sdcsvax}!sdcrdcf!lwall