[Brett66]

Ping.

[Sloth]

[baltodog]

This is just incredible.
Although the cost of composites is initially expensive, it's continued use brings costs down.
Looking at this spacecraft, the new Eclipse business jet, and other new projects world-wide, I beleive that the aviation industry is going to see an emergence of new leaders.
This is just like the dawn of the new age that the Wright Brothers started.

[dts32041]

Mr. Harriman your craft is about ready.

[Pontiac]

The cost per flight is said to be going to be about $80,000 - or about 1/1,000 of the cost of Alan Shepard's sub-orbital flight in 1961.

Trouble is, OECD space agencies have spent $1 trillion of taxpayers' money since then - but without reducing the cost of getting to space by a single centime. But what could be more important than making space accessible to the taxpayers who pay for all their work?

The lesson to be learned here is; No mater what government does, so long as they are the sole providers of that service or product, they have no incentive to reduce the cost. And will not.

They will increase expenses (or graft) in order to consume all available funds

In truth government is and always has been the only true monopoly.

[greasepaint]

A glider. So what?

[RightWhale]

Any word on which of the two rocket motors they prefer?

[KevinDavis]

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