This article completely ignores spaceX's launch systems, which seem to be much more cost effective than the Shuttle. The last line pretends as if there's nothi

This article completely ignores spaceX's launch systems, which seem to be much more cost effective than the Shuttle. The last line pretends as if there's nothing between Virgin Galactics sub-orbital plane based system and this massive behemoth. I don't know the industry well to say whether spaceX can compete with this thing, but they've shown great scaling so far... and good reliability at much better cost effectiveness.