A fully operational fleet of space planes -- the number yet to be determined -- is eyed to be up and running in the 2010 to 2012 time frame. I have complete confidence in NASA's ability to utterly screw this up. Mission #1 is maintaining and growing the bureaucracy, so there is simply no way they will ever produce a launch system that is anything other than a bureaucratic boondoggle.
dittoes. Like the Space Station is going to have a significant payload. Right. Expensive rides for jockeys--