In article , bthorn64
@suddenlink.net says...

On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 08:49:29 -0400, Jeff Findley
wrote:


Boeing proposes X-37B for ISS cargo/crew operations
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2013/...abilities-iss-
missions/

The article isn't clear why NASA appears to have dismissed this Boeing
proposal,

Because it isn't needed. NASA is already funding Dragon and Cygnus for
cargo, and Boeing's official offer to NASA for commercial crew is the
CST-100. If Boeing was serious about X-37B, why did it not go that
route for Commercial Crew? Instead, it dusted off its old OSP proposal
and used that.

Sounds like a case of the corporate left hand not knowing what the right
hand is doing. Either that or they thought they'd appeal to the desire
of some within NASA to have manned spacecraft which land on runways
instead of under parachutes, because "everyone" knows that an
"operational" spacecraft lands on runways instead of splashing down in
the ocean.

Thanks,
Jeff
--
"the perennial claim that hypersonic airbreathing propulsion would
magically make space launch cheaper is nonsense -- LOX is much cheaper
than advanced airbreathing engines, and so are the tanks to put it in
and the extra thrust to carry it." - Henry Spencer