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DC-X Anniversary -- 20 on the 18th
Time flies when you're having fun, eh?
Meg Gannon, for NBCNews and Space.com: http://www.nbcnews.com/science/20-years-ago-novel-dc-x-reusable-rocket-launched-history-6C10936007 /dps -- Who, me? And what lacuna? |
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DC-X Anniversary -- 20 on the 18th
Time flies when you're having fun, eh?
Meg Gannon, for NBCNews and Space.com: http://www.nbcnews.com/science/20-years-ago-novel-dc-x-reusable-rocket-launched-history-6C10936007 20 years. Damn. /dps -- Greg D. Moore http://greenmountainsoftware.wordpress.com/ CEO QuiCR: Quick, Crowdsourced Responses. http://www.quicr.net |
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DC-X Anniversary -- 20 on the 18th
On 8/18/2013 5:08 PM, Robert Clark wrote:
"Greg (Strider) Moore" wrote in message m... Time flies when you're having fun, eh? Meg Gannon, for NBCNews and Space.com: http://www.nbcnews.com/science/20-years-ago-novel-dc-x-reusable-rocket-launched-history-6C10936007 20 years. Damn. It is appropriate that SpaceX is testing such similar flight characteristics as the DC-X is undergoing its celebration: SpaceX's Grasshopper test rocket flies sideways successfully. Alan Boyle, Science Editor NBC News Aug. 14, 2013 at 9:24 PM ET http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space...lly-6C10923106 Bob Clark ================================================== ==== Thanks for reminders I was a little off base there. At the moment I wrote my head was full of video imagery and of my old quote, '...as God and Heinlein intended.' With some frustration thrown in from the decades getting wasted by politicians vs urgent preparations for an unknown future by squabbling and grafty politicians. Who like wars to make payoff for their 'friendly' military arms makers, while space access work must accomplish miracles on an uncertain and inappropriately tiny budget. Yes, I recall Apollo landers and the DCX more recently, thanks for the tickle I needed at the moment. Titeotwawki -- Martha Adams [Tues 2013 Aug 20] |
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DC-X Anniversary -- 20 on the 18th
On Monday, August 19, 2013 7:25:16 AM UTC-5, Jeff Findley wrote:
It's also worth noting that between the DC-X flight and today, NASA spent some time, and quite a lot of money, building, but never actually flying, the X-vehicle intended to prove reusable launch vehicle technologies: X-33. ....This isn't that surprising, to be honest. Something that's been bounced around over the years since the only space history presence on Usenet was sci.columbia was the fact that before and after the "Glory Days" there was, and still is, a heavy influence upon NASA to follow the "Langley Approach". In other words, Langley's talented group going back to the origins of the N.A.C.A. came up with ideas/discoveries/designs, published papers on them, and then let others come along and actually *do* something with the info. "That's not the way we do things at Langley" was a credo/dogma that, had it not been shelved by the double-whammy of Sputnik and Gagarin, would have arguably kept the US out of the crash programs that participation in the Space Race called for, if not to mention closing the "Missile Gap" regardless of whether it was for real or fueled by mutual suspicion/distrust. Once that flag was on the Moon, however, the "Langley Approach" clearly began to hold more sway than "Go Fever" had for the previous decade. [sigh] Once upon a time, this thread would have brought on all sorts of debates/flamewars, only to be eventually corrected into silence by Henry... OM |
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DC-X Anniversary -- 20 on the 18th
In article ,
says... The DC-X may yet live again: Jeff Foust ?@jeff_foust "DARPA's Pam Melroy: about to kick off Experimental Spaceplane 1 (XS-1) program, a reusable 1st stage. Industry day early OCtober. #aiaaspace" https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/statu...77568337166336 The planned suborbital follow on to the DC-X might have been able to fulfill such a role. And the X-33 even if you replaced the failed composite tanks with aluminum-lithium could still have served this purpose as a reusable first stage. DARPA To Start Reusable Launch Vehicle Program By Jeff Foust, special to SpaceNews.com | Sep. 12, 2013 http://www.spacenews.com/article/lau...arpa-to-start- reusable-launch-vehicle-program Jeff -- "the perennial claim that hypersonic airbreathing propulsion would magically make space launch cheaper is nonsense -- LOX is much cheaper than advanced airbreathing engines, and so are the tanks to put it in and the extra thrust to carry it." - Henry Spencer |
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