But they're still losing roughly as many engines as Russians did in N1, so that sounds like a dubious claim.
What about the latter? Are they really not tracing the footsteps of the X-33 program?
What about the latter? Are they really not tracing the footsteps of the X-33 program?
X-33 never got to a test flight, let alone a successful one.
X-33 never got to test flight because the engineer minded NASA director kept pushing an unrealistic technical goal.
Besides, SS still hasn't gotten its payload system working.
Are those that dissimilar to how SS program is going?