The European SpaceLiner concept looks hopelessly expensive and impractical for point-to-point travel but something like it might work for transport to space once there are large habitats in orbit: Planners for hypersonic SpaceLiner craft propose a 50 year timeline – PhysOrg
Right. A 50 year plan. Is this plan 10 times better than all of those 5 year plans the Soviet Union used to crank out?
Yep, ten times better chance of lifetime employment …
“many unknowns – foremost among them perhaps, is whether enough people will be willing to pay the expected several hundred thousand dollar cost of a single ride.”
Did they write that with a straight face?
I’m wondering how they kept a straight face as ESA handed over funding for this project…