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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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