Re: Manned space flight after the moon landing

From: G EddieA95 (geddiea95_at_aol.com)
Date: 09/29/04 

Date: 29 Sep 2004 03:14:47 GMT

>I still favor EELV and capsules for now because I think we still have
>to understand the flight regimes better and followup on recent
>materials development before we can do reusable boosters and winged
>orbiters well enough to be worth it.

But we won't get that experience base sending a few test pilots up in upgraded
Apollos. And why does it have to be either /or, wings or back to the sixties?
What ever happened to the plans for VTOL SSTO????