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Affordable Rides

Jay Penn and Chuck Lindley at the Aerospace Corporation have come up with a concept that can get people into orbit for $15,000 per ticket.

I've worked with Jay quite a bit over the years, and those numbers actually look pretty reasonable and credible to me.

Posted by Rand Simberg at October 31, 2002 11:27 AM
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I'm note sure if it's me, but I was unable to open the link.

Posted by James at November 1, 2002 12:24 AM

Interesting. NASA can't even put anything in orbit for the target price of $15k/lb; these guys say they can do it for

Posted by David Perron at November 1, 2002 05:10 AM


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