On Jan 22, 6:46 am, "Docky Wocky" wrote:
Uh? Didn't they have an entirely workable design about 40 years ago?

Or, wouldn't it meet the new fuel consumption standards?

The Saturn V wasn't quite sufficient back then, although with
incorporating a great deal of low mass composites and of somewhat
better engines they should be capable getting their inert GLOW down to
a dull roar of perhaps 15% instead of the nearly 30%, and of otherwise
going with that undocumented Third Reich as-built version should do
the trick. Instead, perhaps they simply need to spend an extra $100
billion for their environmentally polluting stick.

I mean, what's another $100 billion here and there of our hard earned
loot, as spent among friends?
- Brad Guth