From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Sun Feb 02 2003 - 22:11:57 MST
Avatar asked:
<<I agree with this. Wonder why NASA backed off the Abbot and Costello
prototype?>>
1. Developement cost. This would be a significant technology to develop for
a safe
landing. The landing engines would have to survive a launch into orbit,
and then
orbital re-entry and then turn around and ignite the lander engines at a
low altitude
and land safely. This feature, alone, would cost serious bucks; with
cost-over-runs
guaranteed.
2. Bureaucratic Thuggery. I suspect the connections and the secret military
necesscities were taken into consideration.
3. Mental inertia, and the lack of competition for competitive systems.
Mitch
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