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Sierra Nevada Dream Chaser Gets Wings and Tail, Starts Ground Testing
www.universetoday.com ^
| July 13, 2013
| Ken Kremer on
Posted on 07/13/2013 10:29:37 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Sierra Nevada Corporation’s winged Dream Chaser engineering test article is moving forward with a series of ground tests at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center in California that will soon lead to dramatic aerial flight tests throughout 2013.
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The Dream Chaser is one of the three types of private sector ‘space taxis’ being developed with NASA seed money to restore America’s capability to blast humans to Earth orbit from American soil – a capability which was totally lost following the forced shutdown of NASA’s Space Shuttle program in 2011.
(Excerpt) Read more at universetoday.com ...
TOPICS: Travel
KEYWORDS: sourcetitlenoturl
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posted on
07/13/2013 10:29:37 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
07/13/2013 10:38:16 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Republicans create the tools of oppression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
07/13/2013 10:41:22 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Republicans create the tools of oppression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
To: null and void
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posted on
07/13/2013 10:44:27 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: BenLurkin
what's old is new again...
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posted on
07/13/2013 10:51:08 AM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Chode
Hey it’s Steve Austin’s plane!
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posted on
07/13/2013 10:53:00 AM PDT
by
headstamp 2
(What would Scooby do?)
To: headstamp 2
LOL! i forgot all about that...
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posted on
07/13/2013 10:56:45 AM PDT
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Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: BenLurkin
The tail docking makes sense from an engineering perspective, but it just looks wrong to me.
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posted on
07/13/2013 10:59:13 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Republicans create the tools of oppression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
To: BenLurkin
Sierra Nevada? Is it fueled with IPA?
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posted on
07/13/2013 10:59:55 AM PDT
by
Rebelbase
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To: BenLurkin
That would be awesome to see that thing launch while atop the rocket.
To: Chode
Yup. The termination of the lifting body and X-15 programs was announced (IIRC) as part of JFK’s moon landing requirements.
But I have always wondered if they didn’t survive in some iteration in “black” programs.
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posted on
07/13/2013 4:55:01 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: BenLurkin
you and me too... too elegantly simple a concept to just kill off like that
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07/13/2013 5:05:13 PM PDT
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Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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