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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Shipbuilder: [QB] Lockheed Martin is NOT working on X-33, that program along with the Venture Star successor is dead. Contractors simply cannot afford to continue work on multi-billion dollar programs without government contracts or a clear purpose of the craft's usefulness, NEITHER of which the X-33 has. Even before the end of X-33 the contractors were aware of problems that were going to make it unusable as originally intended (e.g. material issues with the aerospike engines and the decision to make the payload bay an external pod). Immediately before program termination, the contractors were actively looking at making the vehicle a two stage to orbit vehicle with strap on liquid rockets...effectivly negating its orginal mission of single-stage-to-orbit. We just weren't ready for X-33. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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