re why not give billion to first year long moon residents in article c sjdp f zoo toronto edu henry zoo toronto edu henry spencer writes this prize isn t big enough to warrent developing a ssto but it is enough to do it if the vehicle exists actually there are people who will tell you that it would be enough to do ssto development if done privately as a cut rate operation of course they may be over optimistic in spite of my great respect for the people you speak of i think their cost estimates are a bit over optimistic if nothing else a working ssto is at least as complex as a large airliner and has a smaller experience base it therefore seems that ssto development should cost at least as much as a typical airliner development that puts it in the g to g range you can also assume that a working ssto would have other applications that would help pay for its development costs true it and the contest would result in a much larger market but i don t think it would be enough to attract the investors given the risks involved if you could gurantee the ssto costs and gurantee that it captures of the available launch market then i think you could do it allen lady astor sir if you were my husband i would poison your coffee w churchill madam if you were my wife i would drink it days to first flight of dcx
