I stand corrected! I’m surprised the DC-X didn’t gain traction (no pun intended) at NASA. Then again, a government agency does not have the same cost/benefit impetus that a private company does.
No prob. I still remember reading about it way back when and how exciting it was to watch the first videos.
Re your comment about ‘government agency’...it was McDonnell Douglas, not NASA. Boeing bought MD. I’m just a bit curious why Boeing is now ‘sharing’ a contract with SpaceX when they are touting technology that Boeing supposedly acquired the rights to with its purchase of MD. If the tech was so fantabulous, Boeing would be asserting its rights to the tech, wouldn’t it? Though a patent would certainly have expired by now, given how many decades ago the concept was demonstrated.
I come back to my ‘bridge to nowhere’ comment...