SSTO built. Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: SSTO built.
# 2922 bypanamabob@... on June 2, 2002, 1:50 p.m.
Member since 2021-10-03
wasnt there an SSTO made from off the shelf parts (including walmart if
memory serves) built for around $60k (not including labor) that flew
succussfully to several hundred feet and landed again? This was around
10years ago and it happened to be on a crowded newsday and didnt get the
press deserved. A redo of the design of the landing gear created a glich
that destroyed the prototype and the money wasnt there to assemble
another...the team was disbanded to other projects. Still, the proof of
concept exists that a group of technitions, CAN create a cheap vehicle.
cover inflation) and see were it takes us?
bob
SLF