[AR] Re: Ozone layer was Re: Removing Coking Deposits
- From: Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Arocket List <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 13:16:44 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, 27 Sep 2016, Henry Vanderbilt wrote:
... the main reason [SSTO] has never been done is that nobody has ever
been able to get adequate funding to *try*.
I would amend that last statement to "nobody *competent* has ever been able
to get adequate funding to try", in light of X-33.
Well, but X-33 wasn't an SSTO, just a tech demo for the hypothetical
VentureStar SSTO... which it was coming to resemble less and less as time
went on. And VentureStar most definitely didn't get funded. (Granted,
the money sunk into X-33 could probably have produced an SSTO if it had
been given to the right people, but it wasn't.)
Henry
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