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Old January 17th 04, 12:41 AM
Scott Lowther
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Default NASA's 1$ billion windfall

Earl Colby Pottinger wrote:

Really, then name one useful thing learnt from the non-building of the X-33.


Multi-lobe composite pressure vessels are hard to make. Very hard to
make.

Cryopumping in composite structures is a serious problem.


There. That's two things.

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