Re: Book, Single Stage to Orbit
Henry Spencer <[email protected]>
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On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, David Weinshenker wrote:
> Hmmm.... SSTO is, so far, what seems to get all the attention
> when folks think of reusable... staging tends to get equated
> with "throwing parts away"; multistage to orbit with retrievable
> stages has (so far at least; as you suggest, that may now be
> changing) not seen as much interest...
If you equate interest to money, and leave NASA stupidities out of it, the
situation is actually precisely the reverse: almost all of the actual
money invested in RLVs went into Kistler's TSTO design.
Henry Spencer
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