On Nov 16, 8:21*pm, "Jonathan" wrote:

My point is that the assumption around here is that all these
attempts were failures, got canceled, and that's the end of
the low cost reusable story. *I say, and it seems rather
obvious, that instead, the various technologies which /were/
successful are in the process of creating the latest attempt.
The X-37B. *All these programs just didn't get ****-canned.
The best of it went to the Pentagon black budget and
low cost reusable technology is not just alive and well, but
quickly catching up...imho.

Wrong.


A. The projects were canceled They did not go in the black budget.

B. the X-37 is old. It is not consolidation of the best of the
canceled projects. It is just an existing test bed.