[Young Werther]

This is the first step in developing the next generation launcher. Press Release dated Nov 20, 2002

[Vidalia]

Dear Santa...

[Quix]

It sure seems like we waste enormous sums of money for appearances when we have SEVERAL technologies vastly superior.

[End The Hypocrisy]

Why doesn't NASA simply learn from the X-33 wastefulness:

http://www.spaceprojects.com/x33

and instead adhere to Newt Gingrich's idea of putting up a competitive prize for the first company to achieve the desired results? Newt's idea's documented at: http://www.spaceprojects.com/prizes . NASA has been taking Newt's idea seriously, but maybe not seriously enough.

[Orangedog]

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