Re: SSTO vs 2 stage

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From: Edward V. Wright
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 17:10

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In <19254@mindlink.bc.ca> Bruce_Dunn@mindlink.bc.ca (Bruce Dunn) writes:

>        The most likely thing that we are going to want in large quantities
>in orbit is propellant.  

Well, up until now, people haven't been claiming "TSTO will be cheaper
than SSTO."  They've been saying, if we have a few large payloads that
can't be broken down, TSTO will be cheaper than a larger SSTO because 
it's cheaper to develop [an unproven assumption].  However, liquid
propellents certainly don't constitute a large payload that's hard
to break down into smaller pieces.

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Subject: Re: SSTO vs 2 stage
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