Posted on 09/16/2022 1:37:30 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Seven passengers?
A whole WW2 infantry squad!
“Accordingly to flaks here the batteries can perform miracles.”
I don’t think any battery would cure you of your insecurity complex.
I refuse to believe in Unicorns—and I won’t apologize for it.
I don’t think they need to steal anymore. They’ve had a generation of their best and brightest attend our top tech schools.
“So, a little crappy shuttle...”
Which can land most anywhere in the world.
“I refuse to believe in Unicorns—and I won’t apologize for it.”
2. They are jealous.
Given their low self-esteem, it aggrieves them to see someone else doing well, in any sense of the word.
Their jealousy causes them to lash out. Their aim is to bring the other person down to their level by belittling their successes or happiness.
A space plane that small ought to be ablde to break Earth orfbit without massive rockets neeeded to go nearly straight up, but insted by takimg off from a runway and then orbiting the earth in progressively higher and higher orbits.
Dream Chaser has been around forever having first been developed by SpaceDev for the Commercial Crew Development program.
The only think interesting about this announcement is the use of the vehicle as a ballistic trajectory crew transport vehicle as opposed to LEO access. It’s one of many uses for this design.
https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/dreamchaser.htm
Seven US tier 1 special operators descending on you from space will ruin your day!
Obviously this unit has constraints on his deployment and use. Currently those same operators would have to spend hours on a conventional aircraft to get to a mission location.
If they would base and launch the thing from Idaho or Nevada, they would already have 4,000 feet of altitude.
7 passengers? That’s a lot of trips to bring up “troop” strength.
Or better yet Alaska.
The lowest (and most dense) layer of the atmosphere is called the troposphere and it is about 7,000 miles thinner at the poles than at the equater.
Sounds gay. Should have named it Dream Smasher or Astrofortress...
Or better yet Alaska.
My bad on the previous comment:
The correction:
The lowest (and most dense) layer of the atmosphere is called the troposphere and it is about 7 kilometers [not 7,000 miles] thinner at the poles than at the equater.
That makes breaking the troposphere by any means easier at the poles than anywhere else. I guess NASA and others put their own comforts during operations over efficiency? /sarc
“I wanted to do the one job that is banned everywhere—I wanted to be a Professor of Conspiracy Theory.”
I can believe that!
Perfect for a squad of Colonial Marines.
Looks like one of the 1960’s lifting bodies that NASA experimented with.
The mission destination is record quarterly profits for the contractor.
So much for being secret. Who leaked it?
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