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Forum:	Commercial Space - Military Space
Topic:	Americans in Orbit-50 Years (AIO-50)

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by Robert Pearlman: [B]The Huntsville Times: [URL=http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1199268924270400.xml&coll=1&thispage=1]Space enthusiast aims to recreate Glenn flight[/URL] <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]Wouldn't it be great if, in 2012, on the 50th anniversary of John Glenn's solo flight in the Friendship 7 Mercury capsule to become the first American to orbit the Earth, we celebrated by recreating that achievement? And wouldn't it be great if we did it with private contributions and resources, at least as much as possible? Russell, 54, is a former Air Force and cargo jet pilot now retired and living in Madison. He formed a nonprofit organization called Americans in Orbit-50 Years to get his plan moving. His plan? Raise money to buy a rocket; refurbish one of the old Mercury capsules that never flew or else build one; put it atop the rocket; then launch, orbit and splash down. Pretty much just like it happened in 1962, except he'd like this astronaut to go for the full seven or more orbits originally planned instead of coming back down after only three as Glenn was forced to.[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE> [I'm not sure if it's the reporter's error here or Russell's, but Glenn was [URL=http://www.thespacereview.com/article/550/1]never planned[/URL] to fly more than three orbits.] <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]Basically, his idea involves raising about $35 million to buy a Falcon 9 rocket from SpaceX, the company PayPal founder Elon Musk created that recently was awarded a NASA contract to demonstrate its ability to carry cargo and crews to and from the International Space Station. Russell says SpaceX has a pad at Cape Canaveral that could be used for the Friendship 7 anniversary launch. He thinks just another $10 million or so would be needed to build a Mercury space capsule. Why so cheaply? All the research, development and testing for the Mercury capsule was done by NASA decades ago and the plans are available in archives.[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE> For more, see the [URL=http://www.aio50.org]Americans In Orbit-50 Years[/URL] website.[/B][/QUOTE]
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