re: #232 goddamnedfrank
That is a hell of a lot of extra mass, manpower, and acreage required to do what Space X has already accomplished with remotely recoverable primary stages. Probably saves something by using Aviation Fuel instead of liquid rocket propellant but I can’t help but feel like this thing is obsolescent right out of the box.
Burt Rutan is probably pissed off the thing has normalish looking cockpit windows instead of a shit ton of circular port holes.