SSTO built.

I don't know, but SSTO stands for Single Stage to Orbit and a couple
hundred feet isn't orbit.

On Sunday, June 2, 2002, at 06:52 AM, panamabob wrote:

> 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.
>
> Perhaps we need to search out these folks and kick in another $120k (to
> cover inflation) and see were it takes us?
>
> bob
> SLF
> -----
>

The materials in one asteroid (the largest ) are sufficient to make
orbital space colonies with ~500 times the surface area of the Earth in
usable real estate. See http://lifesci3.arc.nasa.gov/SpaceSettlement/
for details.

Al Globus
CSC at NASA Ames Research Center
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html