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Well even if it's mass cut down to the 7500kg of the Dragon, you'd still have to consider re-entry from LEO.
I don't believe SS2 has that capability.

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On Fri, 4/15/16, Dave <xxxxxx@usa.net> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Getting there...
 To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
 Date: Friday, April 15, 2016, 11:07 AM

 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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 > Bruce Johnson
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