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And the Saturn V was used by no one except NASA and it
led...nowhere.

It was killed before it even flew. Imagine if Boeing had
undertaken the 777 program, built a dozen prototypes... but
then, due to the board of directors being drunk one day,
officially terminated the project before the first one flew.

Bogus analogy, Scott. No one would have had any objection if Boeing
or McDonnell Douglas or NAR or Grumman or anyone else had used
Saturn V, CSM, or LM technology for their own profitable commercial
products a la Boeing with the B-47 and 707. But there were no such
products. And you know and I know and everyone knows there will be
no such products from an SDHLV.

But you could not care less about that, I suspect.

Jim Davis