If Bush wanted a spaceplane, all we have to do is offer a 1 billion dolar bonus plus an order for 20 spaceplanes @ 300 million each.
Boeing and McDonnel-Douglas would be all over that in a heartbeat.
It's beats funding AIDS to the tune of 15 billion dollars that's for sure.
Umm, Boeing bought MacDac about 4-5 years ago, it was in all the papers. Perhaps you meant Boeing and LocMart? Those being about the only games in town when it come building things that fly, not counting things that beat the air into submission with Rotors, although many of those are Boeing birds too,and none are LockMart)