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UK Skylon spaceplane passes key review (from runway to orbit)
BBC ^ | May 24, 2011 | Jonathan Amos

Posted on 05/24/2011 4:06:07 PM PDT by decimon

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To: colorado tanker
You ever see this site alternate history movie with the Collier's Magazine "Man Will Conquer Space Soon!" rockets ....very very cool video http://manconquersspace.com/
41 posted on 05/24/2011 7:25:22 PM PDT by tophat9000 (Global Warming, undeniable truth; Obama, infallible genius; Apple perfect, invented everything)
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To: wastedyears

close..it was Bellus...


42 posted on 05/24/2011 7:38:05 PM PDT by razbinn (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America,and to the republic for which it ...)
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To: tophat9000

The Brits have always had cool "paper" rockets. ;)

43 posted on 05/24/2011 8:34:37 PM PDT by anymouse (God didn't write this sitcom we call life, he's just the critic.)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Spot on.


44 posted on 05/24/2011 8:41:09 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: RightGeek
Hey, where’s the plan for Muslim outreach?

That is where yje payload bay comes in. They'll drop self-esteem pamphlets from orbit. Pity that they'll never reach their audience...
45 posted on 05/24/2011 8:44:19 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Rio

Like piloting a rock flung from a sling shot?


46 posted on 05/25/2011 8:12:52 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both)
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To: decimon

I wondered what Professor Quatermass and the British Experimental Rocket Group had been up to lately...

47 posted on 05/25/2011 8:45:07 AM PDT by Jonah Hex ("To Serve Manatee" is a cookbook!)
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To: tophat9000
That Colliers Magazine piece is really cool. Hadn't seen that before.

I wonder why no one has built one of those rotating space stations to simulate gravity?

48 posted on 05/25/2011 4:18:26 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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