The X-33 Reusable Launch Vehicle: A New Way of Doing Business? : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics of the Committee on Science, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session, November 1, 1995, Volume 4 |
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access to space achieve aerospike engine aircraft ballistic missiles believe billion budget build Chairman commercial RLV commercial space commitment competition components CONG CONGRE CONGRESS THE LIBRARY criteria DC-X DC-XA decision EELV engine financing flight test full-scale funding profile future goals ground test industry partners International Space Station investment investors Issues for Congress launch costs launch services launchers LIBRA LIBRARY OF CONGRESS MANSFIELD McDonnell Douglas ment NASA's National Space Society National Space Transportation NSTP operational costs operational RLV orbit partnership payloads Payton Phase planned potential private sector questions reusable launch system Reusable Launch Vehicle risk reduction RLV development RLV program RLV technology rocket Russian satellites SENSENBRENNER single-stage-to-orbit space launch Space Shuttle Space Station Space Transportation Policy space transportation systems SSTO Subcommittee tank technical risk technology demonstrator test program thermal protection systems U.S. Congress U.S. Government U.S. launch U.S. space transportation X-33 program