re i want that billion in article rkb inn hs mojo eng umd edu sysmgr king eng umd edu writes what s more if you buy titans the prize money is your entire return on investment if you develop a new launch system it has other uses and the prize is just the icing on the cake unless you re martin marietta since as i recall they bought out the gd line of aerospace products i think you ve got an off by one error in your memory mm bought the satellite building side of ge e not d mm and gd are still competitors if mm gd does it as an in house project their costs would look much better than buying at list price better yes but we re not talking order of magnitude especially if you want to use titan iv which belongs to the usaf not mm c mon allen is telling us how cheap we can get improved this or that sure you can get a heavylift launcher fairly cheap if you do it privately rather than as a gummint project but we re still talking about something that will cost nine digits per launch unless you can guarantee a large market to justify volume production svr resembles a high speed collision henry spencer u of toronto zoology between svr and sunos dick dunn henry zoo toronto edu utzoo henry
