[AR] Re: SSTO
- From: Chris Jones <clj@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 17:03:38 -0500
On 02/13/18 4:47 PM, Uwe Klein wrote:
Am 13.02.2018 um 19:56 schrieb Rand Simberg:
I'd hope that we learned from Shuttle that the key to reducing the
cost of access to space is not a massive government program.
not enough abstraction.
Apollo was a massive government program too. Successful.
The lunar landing effort is not a counter-example. Yes, it was
successful, since its ONLY stated goal was to land humans on the moon
and return them safely "before this decade is out." There was a saying
inside the program that, in the pursuit of that goal, you could waste
anything but time (i.e. wasting money was acceptable).
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