In the Tom Hanks movie Apollo 13, viewers were shown some reminded of the do-or-die spirit of the namesake spaceflight and its engineers.
Neufeld acclaims him "the most influential rocket engineer and spaceflight advocate of the 20th century".
The explosion is a stark reminder of the "incredible dangers" of spaceflight, a former Nasa engineer and analysts have said, noting that such missions are inherently risky.
"It has not changed my view of the risk of spaceflight," said Dr. Charles J. Camarda, an aerospace engineer from Queens, N.Y., who will be making his first journey into space.
"These old space station studies now look completely archaic," says David Baker, editor of Spaceflight magazine and a former Nasa engineer who worked on the concepts.
"Everything within space is restricted by the speed of light," explained Richard Obousy, president of Icarus Interstellar, a non-profit group of scientists and engineers devoted to pursuing interstellar spaceflight.
Musk and other engineers believe reusable rockets could revolutionize spaceflight because they would lower the cost of rockets: a standard Falcon 9 launch costs $61m.
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But efforts by the agency have dried up as it searches for dollars to keep the human spaceflight program going, said Donna Shirley, a retired J.P.L. engineer and former chairwoman of the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts.
They have been joined by a few smaller companies like Spaceflight, attracted by Seattle's abundant supply of software engineers from stalwarts like Amazon and Microsoft and aerospace experts from Boeing, the aviation giant that has major operations in the area.
