From: Michelle Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Sat Aug 01 1998 - 10:49:52 MDT
Mike Linksvayer wrote:
> The current New Scientist has a feature on Roton available...
> ... These and other improvements could
> supposedly provide an eighty percent reduction in cost/kg...
far be it from me to be a naysayer, as this offends my
techno-optimistnature, but as one who works in the field, i suspect this
is sales-speak.
> Rotary Rocket seems to have made financial, political and
> technological progress since then.
well, fanancial and political perhaps... {8^D
> Daniel Goldin likes them, and
> they supposedly could do flight testing next March.
yes, and this puzzles me. goldin is perhaps the most technically
advanceddirector of nasa we have ever had, so is not easily fooled. i
shall reserve
judgement on roton, although i must confess deep skepticism. spike
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