aerospace companies cooperate in reusable vehicle market what would all of you out there in net land think of the big martin mariatta boeing mcdonell douglas general dynamics lockheed rockwell getting together and forming a consortium to study exactly what the market price pints are for building reusable launch vehicles and spending say million to do that recognizing that most of the military requirements for launch vehicles are pulled out of a hat somewhere say has the shuttle ever really used that mi crossrange capability you get the idea figure out how many how often where to etc then taking this data and forming a sematech type company bad example i know but at least its an example to develop between and craft designs then to take all of those designs and figure out exactly what the technologies are and demonstrate those technologies in order to eliminate designs that can t be built today and lets say that this portion again funded by the gov cost about million and from here all of these companies went their separate ways with the intention of taking all of the market data and the design data to wall street and saying i want to build this vehicle and here are the numbers that show roi fund me now many of you think that this is a joke but i have it on good authority that just this project is shaping up in the background it seems that the aerospace companies have learned that everyone yelling similar but different things ends up in many programs that do nothing much and get canceled nasp nls als dcy etc they need to work more in the japaneese and european spirit of initial cooperation they have also learned that design requirements that are phony i e some generals idea of what a space vehicle ought to be ends up getting chopped up in congress because it is not a real requirement any feedback john
