Stratolaunch Took to Air Two Years Ago
Using this monster to get a launch vehicle, and not a very big one, up to around 40,000 feet and 500 miles an hour was never going to pay off. I just do not get how investors get conned into this stuff. The first stage of a launch vehicle does the same thing in…under a minute? And then it keeps going.
I would say it is a great design for a jetliner if all the passengers are carried in a center pod that can be jettisoned and soft land (perhaps using a combination of parachute and rockets) if the plane…has a problem. We then might make every year 2017; the first and so far only year there were no fatalities in a commercial airline disaster.
That is something to invest in.
Ice on the Moon 