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From: barnes@Xylogics.COM (Jim Barnes)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: SSX: Space Ship Experimental (summary)
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Date: 16 Jan 90 16:51:47 GMT
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In article <9001121009.AA01853@zit.cigy.> bpistr@cgch.UUCP writes:
>For about a billion dollars over four years we can build and fly SSX 
>prototypes.  If SSX works even half as well as predicted, SSX-type vehicles 
>will be a revolutionary improvement in our access to space. 

    ... lots of good stuff deleted ...

If these cost/time to develop estimates are true, then why isn't someone
(like Boeing) doing this now?  My recollection (I don't have any references
at hand, so my memory may be wrong) is that Boeing takes longer and spends
more money just to develop a new commercial plane (e.g. the 767).

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  Jim Barnes (barnes@Xylogics.COM)