500.000 lbs SSTO shuttle? With the current state of technology, that's an engineers dream, but an engineering nightmare. Do not overestimate our capabilities. I'm not saying it's impossible and very likely we'll see (heavy lift) SSTO in the future, but at the moment both SSTO and 500.000 lbs lift are major engineering problems, let alone combining the two .

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