...less dangerous splitting of groups over multiple planes...
So if there is anything to be learned from the heavy aircraft scenario, it may be that a heavy rocket needs to be an incremental step beyond existing systems, and only exist to do a better job of something already done.
The driver of everything in the oversize aircraft discussion is COST. They built them to save COST moving things around.
Some day in the future the Circus might get the budget to travel by plane, better build a plane that can carry the elephants now.
Four Mile Circus from The Stars My Destination?
Not fair.
And that since we've not really been doing this for the last forty years, that there must be some force working in the opposite direction?
Quote from: JohnFornaro on 08/06/2010 01:41 pm And that since we've not really been doing this for the last forty years, that there must be some force working in the opposite direction?how about lack of political backbone from our elected officials to actually write the checks to pay for the grand visions they claim to support, combined with the incessant need to reboot those visions every 4-8 years? It also doesnt help that it seems to take an eternity these days for any project to see fruition...some days it seems like Apollo wouldnt have made it off the back of the napkin if it had been proposed today.