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May 15th 04, 06:54 PM
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On Fri, 14 May 2004 22:44:42 -0700, Steve Hix
wrote: In article . net, "Steven P. McNicoll" wrote: "Vaughn" wrote in message news  Sorry, but I have to go with Pete here, the relevent point is that it is being done by a small private corporation...and they are making it look easy! What is significant about a private corporation duplicating a feat that a government agency accomplished decades earlier? They don't need a cast of thousands and a couple hundred million to do it. The X-15 program didn't have a cast of thousands. It also didn't cost a couple hundred million. In fact, it didn't even have a cast of a thousand, now that I think about it. Maybe two or three hundred people, for all three vehicles, at most. The cost was in the millions, of course, but not hundreds of millions. Mary -- Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer 
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