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- From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: How many flights are Orbiters designed for?
- Message-ID: <ewright.726252999@convex.convex.com>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 16:56:39 GMT
- References: <725984212snz@chrism.demon.co.uk> <1993Jan2.171539.9059@iti.org> <ewright.726167217@convex.convex.com> <1993Jan4.181413.21254@iti.org>
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- In <1993Jan4.181413.21254@iti.org> aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer) writes:
-
- >There will be no private financing of a SSTO proof of concept. The current
- >and projected market is simply too small and not profitable enough to
- >warrent private capital.
-
- With friends like you, who needs Gary Coffman? :-)
-
- The one way to make certain there is no private financing is
- to place all your eggs in the DoD basket and not look for any.
- This is very dangerous unless you believe DoD funding is a
- sure thing. (In which case it's still dangerous, because
- you'd be wrong.)
-