Single-stage-to-orbit unlikely for next-generation RLV, says Lyles

NO SSTO YET: NASA's next-generation reusable launch vehicle (RLV) will almost certainly not be a single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) vehicle, according to Garry Lyles, manager of the Space Launch Initiative's Propulsion Project Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. "I think we...

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