Flew once, unmanned. Which was a good thing as a live crew would have been roasted alive on re-entery...
Posted on 12/25/2007 12:38:26 PM PST by Jonathan
*sigh* Yeah, and the Dyna-Soar was mounted on top of the stack, where any good space capsule should be, not strapped to the side where it's a target for any debris shed during launch.
Imagine how much better we could do now. We have better materials. Better manufacturing techniques. Better design software. Better understanding of the physical stresses. And a better understanding of actual mission profiles.
Too bad most of our manufacturing capability is simply gone.
That won’t happen as long as we have subs with Trrdent missles capable of targeting 16 different targets in one shot.
If we figure it out, they’ll steal it.
If they figure it out, we’ll only know when it is far, far too late.
These look like they could have been copied from NASA design concepts for the current Space Shuttle, from about 1970.
I see that, thanks. This is not going to be simple, not for this retired geezer, especially in Alaska where a call to Anchorage is long distance.
Flew once, unmanned. Which was a good thing as a live crew would have been roasted alive on re-entery...
Guess pre-emtive strike on the Ruskies and Chicoms is the answer . We will have to do a “ Red Dawn” on them .
Bitter irony?
No.
Just a comment on the efficacy of saving money now by paying our enemy to make junk for us.
Poor E..Unum sounds like he has a hemmoriod problem tonight.
He should make sure that the Prep. H is the real deal and not from China. . . .
Really? Didn't they have heat shields?
It seems that people are forever thinking that you can just fly in to and out of space. When the Chinese solve the reentry thing get in touch. LOL, Oh and for you people and space weapons , the reentry part still holds true, the weapon will melt.
Yes they did. They had heat shields of the design they stole from us. I guess our design was faulty.
;^) Love that CIA!
I assumed that if the spacecraft survived re-entry the crew would too. Maybe that’s not a good rule. There was a re-entry accident where the hatch seal opened and the spacecraft landed but the crew was dead, unless that is one of the several rumor type stories still around.
Three Cosmonauts died of hypoxia on reentry when a vent valve malfunctioned.
That’s why we suit up for launch and reentry. They were in shirt sleeves.
400° would cook dinner. That would be tough even in spacesuits/flightsuits.
They demanded an unmanned test flight.
Good thing for the cosmonauts...
It does look like Pegasus, a little fatter, not like a proper aircraft.
Back in the day, I saw an overhead shot of the Buran, on the back of its transport craft which had obviously run off the runway and wound up in the mud. Not sure now if it was on a Bear or one of the big Antonovs.
Don’t forget the help that John Glenn gave—and was rewarded with a ride in the space shuttle.
It was an Antonov An-225.
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