Perhaps it has escaped your notice that we’re currently $17 TRILLION IN DEBT with $140 TRILLION IN UNFUNDED LIABILITIES?!?
There is no money and no constituency for the level of investment necessary for your dream.
Orion is “supposed” to launch the first test flight next year, with the first manned test flight “scheduled” for 2020.
Take a peek at the cost/schedule curve, then tell me when your break through miracle needs to occur to meet your time table.
Orion is “supposed” to launch the first test flight next year, with the first manned test flight “scheduled” for 2020.
Take a peek at the cost/schedule curve, then tell me when your break through miracle needs to occur to meet your time table.
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The USA is in the first years of a massive refunding as a result of a revolution in the oil patch.
That said the big break through technologies that make big space civilization possible— won’t come as a result of money being thrown at them by government.