re: Cheap and Reliable Access To Space

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phil — 5/7/2008 4:09:45 PM (archived)

Clearly, the technologies for cheap access to LEO were NOT as easy to develop as many of us and those investors in the private sector believed in the 90s. Precisely how difficult CATS is is still an open question, thankfully one that has several attempts to address it underway. Baby steps. But lots of them.

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Cheap and Reliable Access To Space - Raoul - 5/6/2008 6:14:22 PM
- re: Cheap and Reliable Access To Space - phil - 5/7/2008 4:09:45 PM
- re: Cheap and Reliable Access To Space - TB - 5/6/2008 7:07:53 PM
  - After all these years, and what has happened? - Raoul - 5/6/2008 9:20:33 PM
    - We've managed to reinvent Apollo. - TB - 5/7/2008 1:54:04 AM
      - Ares 1 is actually worse than Apollo, and we can't build it anyway - E.P. - 5/7/2008 10:06:21 PM
      - Early NASA could take risks no private corporation would dare take. - Jacob - 5/7/2008 5:01:22 PM
      - At least not reinvent the shuttle - Raoul - 5/7/2008 5:44:58 AM

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