Eh. I continue to believe the small-scale manned TSTO vehicle proposed by
Stiennon <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DH-1_(rocket)> had many
under-appreciated virtues.
Be fun to glom onto detailed plans & do an update. (A manned lower staging
scheme doesn’t seem *-as-* necessary, for example.) One William Henry
Gates, of Redmond, WA, was the assignee for the patent
<http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5568901.pdf> in ’96. Guess he lost
interest & went after global disease vectors instead (or it flew as a black
project).
On Sun, Jan 5, 2020 at 5:15 AM Uwe Klein <uwe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Am 05.01.2020 um 08:29 schrieb Rand Simberg:
How sad is it really? It all really ended in '67.
What is sad is that we spent so many decades since thinking that Apollo
was the model for opening space. And that many still do. Artemis is the
Lady Ghostbusters of Apollo.
Who thought that? really?
The perceived longtime model for space access was showcased in "2001"
( and before that in the von Braun Book.)
the Shuttle project then proceeded as "Citroen Dyane in space".
( i.e. merging the downsides of the 2CV and "real cars" )
Uwe
