[jojosbuddy]

Pros and cons.

You can instead of using that 747 with more optimized aircraft for this purpose. And you can make the boosters reusable. Stratolaunch was on a good path long term but ran out of cash.

The dilemma with VO's approach was the same as OSC, thinking that reusing parts made for something else is cheaper short term and long term, where in fact more $ short and long. Yes the carrier was too expensive to maintain and material tech wasn't there yet to stop boil on the upper stages during staging. But the tradeoff was you can launch (nearly) anywhere, anytime, but regs/politics killed that benefit. I think we had potentially 8 locations at one point, ended up with 3. And thus, here we are. Sad VO couldn't keep the idea innovating.