On Apr 11, 3:34*pm, "J. Clarke" wrote:
On 4/11/2010 3:21 PM, Matt wrote:
The claim in the post above was: "A much better result can be had from
a balloon-assisted launch system"

Has *anyone* demonstrated that it is "better," student or otherwise?

Not that I know of. *Useful for some purposes, probably, but superior
for general use, no.

Because we're still on the glide path from the boost that manned
spaceflight got from the ICBM programs.

-HJC