Re: How many flights are Orbiters designed for?

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From: Edward V. Wright
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 16:56

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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.)

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