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To: Bulwyf

Cheaper launches.

If the design works as intended (and the concept appeared often enough in late nineteen fifties science fiction) it will make money.


11 posted on 04/13/2019 9:08:14 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: MrEdd

It’s essentially a reusable first stage for an orbital launch system, using air-breathing engines that are much cheaper to operate than a pure-rocket first stage.


18 posted on 04/13/2019 9:13:55 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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