[extropy-chat] Re: Are dwarfs better for long duration spaceflight?

[Eugen Leitl]

On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 06:50:45PM -0400, David Lubkin wrote:

> He proclaimed that spacecraft *must* be custom-built, and that it 
> would *never* be possible to mass-produce them. And yes, friends, he 
> really did mean *never*.

He was most likely already wrong at the time he spoke:

http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/20010601eo1.html
http://www.afrlhorizons.com/Briefs/0009/VS0014.html
http://www.wtec.org/loyola/ar93_94/scst.htm

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