Mike Linksvayer wrote:
> The current New Scientist has a feature on Roton available...
> ... These and other improvements could
> supposedly provide an eighty percent reduction in cost/kg...
> Rotary Rocket seems to have made financial, political and
> technological progress since then.
well, fanancial and political perhaps... {8^D
> Daniel Goldin likes them, and
> they supposedly could do flight testing next March.
yes, and this puzzles me. goldin is perhaps the most technically
advanceddirector of nasa we have ever had, so is not easily fooled. i
shall reserve
judgement on roton, although i must confess deep skepticism. spike