Free Republic 1st Qtr 2024 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $77,196
95%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 95%!! Thank you everyone!! God bless.

Keyword: dcx

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • DC-X Honored for Its Contributions, Potential

    09/01/2008 10:59:11 PM PDT · by anymouse · 6 replies · 168+ views
    Space.com ^ | Sep 1, 2008 | Leonard David
    Creating routine, aircraft-like, low-cost access to space is not only technologically challenging, it will require enormous tenacity to overcome the inevitable bureaucratic, political and funding hiccups. These are just a few of the lessons learned by veterans of the Delta Clipper-Experimental (DC-X) rocket ship program. Created by an entrepreneurial-like pact between industry and government from 1991-1997, the DC-X project showcased the technology and operational concepts for a single-stage-to-orbit vehicle capable of supporting an array of military and commercial applications, including public space travel. The DC-X was first managed by the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization, under a contract with the U.S....
  • 'La force motrice' of Reusable Launcher Development: The Rise and Fall of the SDIO's SSTO Program

    07/04/2007 12:58:46 AM PDT · by anymouse · 3 replies · 537+ views
    NASA Headquarters History Dept. ^ | 2001 | Andrew J. Butrica
    "'La force motrice' of Reusable Launcher Development: The Rise and Fall of the SDIO's SSTO Program, From the X-Rocket to the Delta Clipper" Introduction. NASA commissioned me to document the development of the X-33 in March of 1997. The X-33 is an advanced technology demonstrator vehicle intended to flight test technologies deemed critical for eventually building a reusable single-stage-to-orbit rocket transport. Those technologies include a metallic thermal protection system, an aerospike engine, and composite cryogenic hydrogen tanks. As part of the history project, I chose to write about the SDIO's SSTO Program as a predecessor to the X-33, even though...
  • Daimler Unveils High-Mileage Diesel Car

    06/08/2005 10:55:57 AM PDT · by B Knotts · 73 replies · 2,190+ views
    Washington Post ^ | 6/7/05 | Justin Blum
    DaimlerChrysler says it will become the first manufacturer to unveil a diesel concept car that will meet more stringent pollution rules and get higher mileage than diesels now on the road. ... Some environmentalists reacted with skepticism to the Daimler car, noting that manufacturers often introduce flashy concept cars that never make it to the production line. They also said the country would be better served by companies making more gasoline hybrid vehicles because they pollute less than cleaner-burning diesels. "The auto industry is trying to convince the car-buying public . . . to reject better technology like hybrid cars,"...
  • Chrysler minivans to Iraq?

    06/02/2005 2:46:40 AM PDT · by RWR8189 · 33 replies · 1,043+ views
    CNN ^ | June 2, 2004
    Report: Military buying Chrysler minivans, Pacificas to ferry troops in non-combat zones.NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - The U.S. military has ordered 24,000 Chrysler minivans and Pacifica crossover SUVs for use as light-duty vehicles in Iraq and other places, according to a report in a Canadian newspaper.DaimlerChrysler, Chrysler's parent company, builds the Pacificas in Windsor, Ontario and makes minivans there, as well as at other locations.The order is for 19,000 minivans and 5,000 Chrysler Pacificas, according to the story. The Pacifica is not designed for off-road use and resembles a large, tall station wagon.The military has complained about the use of fuel-thirsty...
  • Earth-to-Orbit Transport: the Missing Ingredient in Bush’s Space Policy Recipe

    02/03/2004 8:49:15 PM PST · by anymouse · 17 replies · 375+ views
    The Space Review ^ | Monday, February 2, 2004 | Taylor Dinerman
    One assumption which everyone in the space community has been making is that the Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) which NASA plans to use for future human spaceflight will be placed into low Earth orbit by a heavy-lift version of either the Atlas 5 or the Delta 4 EELVs. This, in turn, implies the end of NASA’s efforts to develop and build a reusable launch vehicle (RLV). One sign of this is the stream consistently negative comments on the RLV concept from Administrator Sean O’Keefe. This may be a case of sour grapes, since NASA has so often failed to come...