.....NASA, Lockheed Martin Agree On X-33 Plan !

*From:* "jonathan"
*Date:* Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:36:50 -0500

You guys just don't seem to see the military value low cost
to orbit can have. Bush/Cheney define the notion of
being pro-military industrial complex.

I don't think any USAF programme has anything to do with low cost to orbit.

Any spaceplane they develop will all be about being able to project force
anywhere on the planet in a couple of hours. 90% of the missions could be
achieved with a purely suborbital system.

In fact in their place I'd be talking to Scaled Composites, not Lockheed.

wrote:
I don't think any USAF programme has anything to do with low cost to orbit.

Any spaceplane they develop will all be about being able to project force
anywhere on the planet in a couple of hours. 90% of the missions could be
achieved with a purely suborbital system.

In fact in their place I'd be talking to Scaled Composites, not Lockheed.


They are interested in that concept by the way; here's a section of the
"Air Force 2025" report about developing suborbital bombers:
http://www.fas.org/spp/military/doco...12/v3c12-1.htm

Pat