🚀 go-pugleaf

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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