NASA budget has funds for X-33 follow-on to continue testing

NASA's fiscal 1999 budget request includes funding for follow-on technology development in case its X-33 suborbital testbed doesn't convince industry and Wall Street that a commercial reusable launch vehicle can be built. Early follow-on work is funded under a $17 million "Future-X" program of...

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