NASA Eyes Spaceplanes For Crew Transport

On Feb 9, 5:53*am, Jeff Findley wrote:
In article
tatelephone,
says...



I wish someone would point out that the HL-20 design was developed from
a wind tunnel model NASA made from photos an Austrailian P-3 Orion took
of the splashdown and recovery of the Soviet BOR-4 unmanned reentry
vehicle in the Indian Ocean:
http://www.astronautix.com/craft/bor4.htm
http://www.astronautix.com/craft/hl20.htm
We were always yelping about the damn Russians copying our designs;
here's a case where just the reverse was the literal truth.

Now, now, Pat! *We don't want to admit that the US sometimes steals the
best Russian ideas, do we? *Can't we just let NASA quietly take all the
credit (by not setting the record straight), just like they do for
inventing Tang and velcro? *;-) *;-)

Jeff
--
" Solids are a branch of fireworks, not rocketry. :-) :-) ", Henry
Spencer 1/28/2011

Perhaps the first viable commercial spaceplanes for accessing ISS will
have to come from China or India, because anything from William Mook
isn't going to fly, and there's nothing viable that we can afford from
NASA.

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