starship-design: Cheap Access to Space

["L. Parker" <lparker@cacaphony.net>]

What I don't understand, is that if anyone REALLY wants the X-prize  and
intends on doing anything with the hardware after they win (or even if they
don't), why don't they but the rights to the DC-X?

It was FLYING.

It is closer than anything else out there to managing SSTO, quick turn
around and minimal ground crew. Heck, even during testing the ENTIRE ground
crew, monitoring crew and engineers on site were less than a tenth of a
typical shuttle launch. Worse if you factor in all of the people involved in
refurbing the shuttles between trips


Lee


The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

- B.F. Skinner