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- Path: sparky!uunet!hela.iti.org!aws
- From: aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer)
- Subject: DC-Y Funding (was: How many flights are Orbiters designed for? )
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.010441.10860@iti.org>
- Organization: Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow
- References: <ewright.726167217@convex.convex.com> <1993Jan4.181413.21254@iti.org> <ewright.726252999@convex.convex.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 01:04:41 GMT
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- In article <ewright.726252999@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
-
- >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.)
-
- DoD it the only thing. Much as I wish it where otherwise, the fact
- remains that the launcher buisness is a small market, not profitable
- for anybody, competes with government subsidzed competition, and currently
- suffers from an oversuply of launchers and too few payloads.
-
- Nobody is going to invest the billions needed for the proof of concept
- vehicle under these conditions.
-
- Allen
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