"Christopher M. Jones" wrote:
It's a demonstrator of the technology of putting it together and
managing it without unnecessary overhead.

Given that it hasn't flown in regular service, and isn't planned to do
so, it 'demonstrates' no such thing.

But SS1 as a thing built for a fraction of the cost and with a fraction of
the workforce of any other sub-orbital rocket in history, even the X-15,
is quite an achievement.

Given that it's not in the X-15's class (it's inferior), and that
there *is* no other suborbital rocket to compare it to...

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