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- From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
- Subject: Re: DC-1 eventual construction question...
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 05:03:45 GMT
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- In <1993Jan27.020909.11819@iti.org> aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer) writes:
-
- >For the forssable future, I think it is.
-
- Fortunately, your opinions are not acts of God. :-)
-
-
- >>Lockheed was ready to proceed with an
- >>SSTO using its own money, if the government was willing to get out
- >>of the way.
-
- >What do you mean by out of the way?
-
- I'm only repeating what I heard, but I think it's fairly obvious
- they were talking about regulation (and maybe a guarantee that
- the government would not build something to compete with them).
-
-
- >>Grumman was prepared to go ahead with the development
- >>of a smaller, commercial SSTO (Frequent Flyer) using its own funds,
- >>if SDIO had selected its proposal for the suborbital demonstration
-
- >That is news to me. Grumman was not one of the Phase I contractors.
-
- Grumman's bid was declared ineligible because it was not technically
- single-stage-to-orbit. (It's air-launched from a 747.)
-
-
- >>Boeing is prepared to go ahead with an SSTO project, if it
- >>can be shown what the markets are.
-
- >Sure. The operative words are 'if it can be shown what the markets are'.
- >They won't settle for expected space tourism or other applications which
- >may or may not happen.
-
- Please tell me what else was said at the meeting, Allen. I don't
- recall hearing that.
-
-
- >>That's because you're looking at the wrong market.
-
- >I am looking at the existing launch market. There are no others.
-
- Oh? Really? I could have sworn I saw an ad in this morning's
- paper for flights to Australia. And that Society Expeditions
- collected quite a few reservations for LEO tourist flights,
- just a few years back. Guess the memory does play tricks
- at my age.
-
-
- >>There is a market for fast transportation, for people
- >>as well as cargo.
-
- >I agree. The problem is that this cannot be proven to the degree needed
- >to justify the opportunity cost of funding development.
-
- I can't prove Santa Claus exists. As for Federal Express... give
- me your address and I'll have the evidence on your desk at 10:00
- tomorrow morning.
-
-
- >If you don't agree, show us your business plan.
-
- Sorry, it's not my plan. If you want to see it, you'll
- have to talk to the copyright holder.
-
- (Yes, I know, I'm a terrible fussbudget about these things.
- Comes from being a professional writer.)
-
-