Scaled Composites - AirLaunch LLC win small part of NASA CEV contract

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 17:47:56 GMT, (Derek Lyons) wrote:

Joe Strout wrote:

This is really cool. It's only $3M, but that's still significant --
only a half-dozen other firms were given equivalent grants. That
indicates that at least some at NASA are receptive to this highly
commercial approach.

It's a contract for a study. Just like hundreds? thousands? that NASA
has entered into over the years covering everything from a three man
orbiting capsule to speculative propulsion concepts like warp drive.
It's utterly unidicative of NASA support for anything.

Move along, nothing to see here.


Yea, but I bet the study produces some real pretty pictures. ;-)

- Rusty