Testing Leads To Failure, And Failure Leads

When You Have A Transportation System That The Price Of Propellant Is Essentially Negligible Something Is Very Wrong. If You Look At Any Other Transportation System, A Car, A Motorcycle, A Train, An Oil Tanker, An Airliner, You Name It; About A Quarter To A Third Of The Operating Cost Is Buying The Propellant.

When Theres Ever A Breakthrough, A True Breakthrough, You Can Go Back And Find A Time Period When The Consensus Was 'well, Thats Nonsense!', So What That Means Is That A True Creative Researcher Has To Have Confidence In Nonsense.

Nasa Works For The White House. There Are Many At Nasa That Wish They Were Building A Modern Replacement For The Shuttle. However, They Had Marching Orders To Instead Work On Other Things, Some Of Which Should Have No Place In A Research Organization.

Confidence In Nonsense Is Required.

America Was Good Enough To Make A Small Compact Lighter Weight Nuclear Weapon. The Russians Still Had These Big Clunky Heavy Ones, So They Had To Build The Big Boosters In The Arm's War, So Now All Of The Sudden Russia Could Take Off The Shelf And Put Into Orbit Much Heavier Things Than We Could, So That's Why They Had The Original Leadership.