Wayne, you senile old cynical fart, how can you believe ...<br /><br />Just kidding ;-)<br /><br />For a company to take such risks in developing a "SuperHeavy" launcher, they would have to either SEE a direct payoff, or make a GAMBLE that there would be one by the time it was ready for flight...<br />For example; when Airbus started the A380 project, it had NO customers.. and an industry that was FAR from convinced that such a large aircraft would be viable. By the time development was halfway done, they had customers. Now, when we're what, a year (?) from a first flight, there are LOTS of customers.<br /><br />It would be a HUGE gamble by a rocket-maker to make a "Saturn V class" launcher betting that "if we make it, they will come"... <br />But it's also not impossible that someone might stretch the payload envelope on a gamble. (I'll beleive it when I see it though...)<br /><br />Paul F.