[KevinDavis]

[jwparkerjr]

re: air-breathing rocket engine that could power the Skylon spaceplane.

I'm no rocket scientist, but even to my very limited knowledge of such things it seems an air-breathing anything would be seriously challenged in space.

[Reaganesque]

Cool looking design:

[incredulous joe]

Does the US have any plans for delivery and return from space; Space Rope?

I wonder if any of the money for such an endeavor made it into any of the Spending Bills? I kinda dount it.

[Eye of Unk]

In researching demands in the airline industry for safer aircraft to combat terrorism Boeing has designed a new series of jets with redundant cockpits isolated from the fuselage.

[SunkenCiv]

The unpiloted, reusable vehicle is designed to take off from an airstrip, deliver cargo into orbit and return to the same runway.

It's a great idea, as long as no one cares A) how little payload it delivers and B) how little actual, practical reusability the thing will have. Thanks KD.