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- From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)
- Subject: Re: How many flights are Orbiters designed for?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.084047.2307@ke4zv.uucp>
- Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
- Organization: Destructive Testing Systems
- References: <725984212snz@chrism.demon.co.uk> <1993Jan2.171539.9059@iti.org> <ewright.726167217@convex.convex.com> <1993Jan4.181413.21254@iti.org> <ewright.726252999@convex.convex.com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 08:40:47 GMT
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- In article <ewright.726252999@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
- >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? :-)
-
- Well I like him. He's one of the few sane people posting here. :-)
-
- >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.)
-
- Allen's right about this, and you are right that DOD funding
- is iffy. Makes a space enthusiast want to cry. Fortunately,
- the Russians are still plugging away and the Japanese are
- enthusiastic. When the next equivalent of Sputnik comes along,
- the US will mount a crash program to catch up, develop an
- overly expensive one shot system, then fall back asleep after
- the next election.
-
- Gary
-
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