Reading the recent press stuff from nasa, although I cannot quite put my
finger in on it one gets the serious feeling that Boiing and Space X are
getting preferential treatment to some extent. The lifting body idea is not
new of course but obviously requires more money to get it to be viable as a
robust design, and they seem to be behind in the 'race' so to speak.
Brian

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