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Nope - it was hopeless from day one, in July 1996.Blame Lockheed and their insane lifting body concept.Blame NASA which picked it in the first place.Blame the Shuttle which set the bar way too high for its successor(we want 65 000 pounds payload out of a SSTO or TSTO or RLV !)And blame the freakkin' rocket equation, which is insanely harsh. It was a lose-lose business for everybody.
Nope - it was hopeless from day one, in July 1996.
Blame Lockheed and their insane lifting body concept.
Blame NASA which picked it in the first place.
Blame the Shuttle which set the bar way too high for its successor
(we want 65 000 pounds payload out of a SSTO or TSTO or RLV !)
And blame the freakkin' rocket equation, which is insanely harsh.
It was a lose-lose business for everybody.
