On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 14:58:02 +0200, in a place far, far away,
"Ultimate Buu" made the phosphor on my
monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

I was wondering: when will they figure out that SSTO is the only way forward
and that they need to revive the X-33 program, or start a new program based
on experience gained there.

Hopefully, a very long time, since that's not the case.

IMHO almost any TSTO is going to be almost just
as expensive to run as the Shuttle, if you take all costs into account
($100+ million per flight),

Good thing your opinion is humble, since there's no basis for it.

Were there fundemantal flaws in the X-33 program which doomed it?

Yes. There was actually very little to recommend it.

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