On Tuesday, Feb 18, 2003, at 12:01 Europe/London, Eric Cordian wrote:
The space plane could be flying now, if the tanks didn't require aA prediction (so probably wrong).
complete redesign from composite to aluminum. It could have gotten funded
to be finished, instead of put into storage. Maybe in 10 years, someone
will do it, like the shuttle. Maybe they won't. Maybe another group will
do something similar. Maybe no one will care.
The US space program will continue to be underfunded since there is no competition until the Chinese manned space program really gets underway and the US get scared.
Maybe history will then repeat itself almost exactly in a Space Race and the US end up on Mars.
The Chinese spacecraft look a lot like the old Soviet ones only better, more modern and almost as if the old Russian engineers had done them but with more money.
Also compare the annual GDP growth rate of China with that of the US.
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Steve Mynott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
