I think the point was to put SpaceShip2 on a Falcon9 and see what happens...
Dave
Your 'reality', sir, is lies and balderdash,
and I'm delighted to say that I have no
grasp of it whatsoever.
                      - Baron Munchausen

On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 10:21 AM, Bruce  Johnson
<xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:
>
>> On Apr 15, 2016, at 1:27 AM, Jeffrey Schwartz <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I had an odd thought this morning.
>>
>> Falcon 9 will put a 7500kg loaded Dragon on the ISS
>>
>> SpaceShip2 carries 6 passengers with a total loaded mass of 9740kg.
>>
>> Suppose you scaled that back to pilot, passenger, cargo and got it down to 7500kg...
>>
>> The only things that wouldn't be reusable are the Falcon second stage and the connecting parts?
>
> Except SpaceShip2 cannot even get into LEO, let alone get to the ISS.
>
> It’s a ballistic carnival ride, essentially. Up to space then down.
>
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