Military Space Plane vs. Ares 1...which could be operational first?

Me writes:

On Nov 15, 4:33Â*pm, Jochem Huhmann wrote:

1. The only even remotely possible reason would be to return things
found
in orbit. Is there something up there they want to grab and return? It
would've to be something fairly small or a small part of something
larger, mind you.


2. Or they have some reusable black launcher in the works.

1. Nope. no rendezvous capability

2. nope

Well, then it looks they have no mission for that thing...

Jochem

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