>>14219661>Wasn't NASA.>As soon as NASA got ahold of it, they broke and abandoned it.Ever since the Cold War ended, space research has been increasingly privatized.
There is a carcinisation effect with LOX fuel based propulsion systems. Where when you are serious about cost, payload, safety, and turn around that everything eventually becomes some variation of the space shuttle. The space shuttle was the most overly engineered piece of technology in modern human history spanning decades of enthusiastic public support and funding. NASA's perceived "malaise" since then is largely because with manned space craft, the shuttle is the answer if you are stuck with LOX.
New propulsion systems require large amounts of intellectual and financial capital to bring into reality but that is never what is being proposed here. Just making everything less quality to squeeze out tiny margin differences where the fuel is still 90+% of the payload.
>>14219659?oyboy gave a fucking star trek strawman. That isn't worth serious discussion.
