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When you have a transportation system that the price of propellant is essentially negligible something is very wrong. if you look at any other transportation system, a car, a motorcycle, a train, an oil tanker, an airliner, you name it; about a quarter to a third of the operating cost is buying the propellant.
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When You Have A Transportation System That

Burt Rutan
When you have a transportation system that the price of propellant is essentially negligible something is very wrong. if you look at any other transportation system, a car, a motorcycle, a train, an oil tanker, an airliner, you name it; about a quarter to a third of the operating cost is buying the propellant.
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