Can’t say much for the music.
Where is all the fuel to come from?
Nice concept - but really can we colonize the moon or something like that rather than build tubes that circle the earth.
I least there may be a payout with minerals etc.
Nice concept - but really can we colonize the moon or something like that rather than build tubes that circle the earth.
I least there may be a payout with minerals etc.
I saw the video too, Musk said the first stage doesn’t need wings to make a controlled re-entry. All the older designs envisioned a winged flyback booster with a crew. But it just doesn’t seem realistic. The first stage booster would have to be so much heavier. And how much heat would it have to take on re-entry? And the fuel necessary to make a controlled return vis a vis the amount necessary to launch the payload?
Musk says it works on paper but I help but think I’m looking at the Sanger antipodal bomber.
Here’s another SpaceX video along the same lines.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p6EruPdoXY
I see all that obsession with a vertical landing, from various companies (Space X, Blue Origin, and Armadillo). Is that the holy grail? Just seems so much easier to stuff the damn things with parachutes, and then retrieve the things from the ocean. Refuel/reuse. I admit I have not looked into the whole flight envelopes proposed, so maybe I am just not seeing things correctly...