[Spktyr]

Amen to that.

Rotary Rocket might have gone down the tubes all by themselves, eventually, but their demise was *greatly* hastened and assured by the hack job NASA did on them with the press. The situation was still very salvagable until that point.

[anymouse]

Agreed. I was luck enough to visit Rotary Rocket's facilities and Rutan's Scaled Composites facilities to check out their progress - before any significant details were made public. that's about all I can tell you about it due to having to sign nondisclosure agreements.

[Brett66]

NASA did a good job at sabotaging Beal Aerospace too. We could've had much cheaper access to space in the mid 90's if that had worked out.