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T. Lurker — 6/10/2004 2:48:39 AM (archived)

The items you list seem reasonable requirements to rech $100/lb to LEO, but cost alone is the true key. In the seemingly unlikely event you can do it with expendable rockets it still would provide a major boost to space comercialization and exploration.

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The major criteria for long term economical space travel. (in my opinion) - David F Mayer - 6/8/2004 12:37:01 AM
- The single criteria for long term economical space travel - Gary - 6/8/2004 2:42:12 AM
  - To get launch costs to LEO down, REUSABILITY and QUICK TURNAROUND are the keys. - David F Mayer - 6/9/2004 1:24:32 PM
    - Not necessarily - Larry J - 6/10/2004 2:14:42 PM
    - It might be impossible but I remain optimistic - Gary - 6/10/2004 6:15:28 AM
      - It might be a good idea to start with a small (unmanned) fully reusable system and slowly scale it up over decades. - David F Mayer - 6/10/2004 7:14:30 AM
    - You're boxing in the solution - T. Lurker - 6/10/2004 2:48:39 AM
    - Hard to get both resuability and performance -- 747 is a much easier problem - dtb - 6/10/2004 2:09:23 AM
      - re: "Hard to get both resuability and performance -- 747 is a much easier problem" That is CERTAIN. I was only using an analogy. - David F Mayer - 6/10/2004 7:08:06 AM

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