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Hmm, this VTVL idea seems to me to be a deliberate attempt by Bezos to
position his endeavor for eventually taking a trip to the moon. First they go for LEO trips, and then later on they extend the use of this same spacecraft to touch down on the Moon. After awhile, they could set up a small base, then eventually a Disneyland/Hotel/etc. Then they could have REAL space tourism. Like Bigelow said, people don't want to just get a fleeting glimpse of space, they want to hang around and do stuff there. So IMHO, Bezos is planning his tech tree carefully. That means this spacecraft is not intended as a prelude to SSTO. It's intended as an upper stage and eventual moon lander. That's why Bezos wants Delta-IV engineers, so that he can build a comparable booster on which to perch this spacecraft, to get to LEO. Then later he uses it for moon landings. I know that sounds like over-imaginative speculation, but isn't it a fact that most of the energy required to get to the Moon is already achieved by rockets which can make high Earth orbit? I think Bezos is planning development of his current platform for a lot of extensibility. |
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