XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, sci.space.policy, sci.physics   
   From: fjmccall@gmail.com   
      
   "Robert Clark"  wrote on Sun, 10 Jun   
   2018 20:16:21 -0400:   
      
   >   
   >The cancelling of the DC-X and X-33 programs were premature.   
   >   
      
   Probably.   
      
   >   
   >Even if they   
   >did not lead to successful SSTO's, they could have themselves been used as   
   >reusable first stages to cut the cost to orbit to the $2,000 per kilo, or   
   >$1,000 per pound, range.   
   >   
      
   Utter poppycock.   
      
      
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    man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore,   
    all progress depends on the unreasonable man."   
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