Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: After Endeavour, what then?
Message-ID: <1991May6.183314.24571@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Mon, 6 May 1991 18:33:14 GMT
References: <346.281f448d@mwk.uucp> <1991May3.120004.12584@pbs.org> <1991May4.213743.7574@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991May5.122325.24559@news.larc.nasa.gov>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991May5.122325.24559@news.larc.nasa.gov> bjax@grissom.larc.nasa.gov ( Bruce Jackson) writes:
>>Freedom will be in a museum, or in pieces strewn over Australia :-), before
>>NASA gets funding to build a second-generation shuttle.
>
>Funding is decided by Congress; but you might be interested to know NASA-
>Langley is developing a "space taxi" based on lifting body technology that
>is capable of carrying up to ten people to low earth orbit...

No, Langley is not "developing" it.  Langley is studying the possibility
of submitting a proposal to investigate maybe someday developing it.  Or
words to that effect. :-)  For all the hoopla about that project, its
funding is miniscule -- it's just another design study, and could easily
sink without trace like a lot of other NASA design studies.
-- 
And the bean-counter replied,           | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
"beans are more important".             |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry