On 27 May 2003 22:25:26 -0700, David Masten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>IMHO, VTVL comes out ahead mostly because I see an easier development
>path going from suborbital to SSTO VTVL.

Several people whose opinions I respect have, over the years, said
that ERPS should give up VTVL and do HTHL.  This was useless advice
(among many other pieces of useless advice, like try hydrazine),
because ERPS can't do HTHL, whether it works better or not.  ERPS can
do VTVL, so it's the best option for them.

Moral of the story: it ain't all about engineering, guys.

-R

-- "We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters
will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare.  Now, thanks to
the Internet, we know this is not true." -- Robert Wilensky, UC Berkeley
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