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In article <2B40B0AD.5877@tct.com> chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
>According to gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman):
>>                        Tzu-Pei Chen
>>"The design of AUSROC II was in many ways too "positive". [...]
>>Obviously, greater testing of each component may have shown up some
>>of these problems earlier.  This simply highlights the very limited
>>resources with which the group currently works.
>
>What an obvious straw man, Gary!  You picked an underfunded project,
>which by simple lack of money was _forced_ into a schedule that
>allowed for little unit testing.  You then use its almost inevitable
>failure as a bludgen to beat up the well-funded DC-1 program.
>
>For shame.

DC-1 is well funded? Last I heard MacDD hadn't found *any* sugardaddy
to fund it *at all*. They've latched onto some SDIO money to fund
DC-X, but that's just an atmospheric test article, not a SSTO vehicle.
Their strawman paper budgets for an eventual DC-Y prototype and follow
on DC-1 production vehicle are underfunded by historic standards of
new spacecraft development programs. No actual money has been allocated
for either proposal.

For shame indeed.

Gary

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