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Posted: 10/5/2004 9:06:45 PM EDT
[#1]
btt for an awesome achievement.
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Posted: 10/5/2004 9:09:28 PM EDT
[#2]
friggen awesome!
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Posted: 10/5/2004 9:10:23 PM EDT
[#3]
It cost them $20million to win $10 million I think
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Posted: 10/5/2004 9:33:52 PM EDT
[#4]
How much should it cost to turn a dream into reality?
These will be carrying paying passengers into space soon. More return on their investment. |
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Posted: 10/5/2004 9:35:25 PM EDT
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Know how much it has cost us taxpayers to put the first man in orbit, and maintain our superiority in space with government know-how? $20mil is about 1/100,000th of the cost of NASA's mission work. |
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Posted: 10/5/2004 9:37:09 PM EDT
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how did they keep the belly from heating up upon re-entry like the shuttle does?
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Posted: 10/5/2004 9:37:58 PM EDT
[#7]
AOL embedded media player???
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Posted: 10/5/2004 9:38:34 PM EDT
[#8]
Due to "feathered" mode the wings go into, re-entry heating is minimal. Pure genius.
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Posted: 10/5/2004 9:38:34 PM EDT
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I would guess it reentered at a very much lower speed than the shuttle does... but that's still a good question! ETA: StormSurge is right... now I remember reading that. Still, I'm not sure if it's a viable option for the shuttle. |
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Posted: 10/5/2004 9:49:46 PM EDT
[#10]
Wow, that was really sweet!! Thanks for posting!
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Posted: 10/5/2004 9:51:33 PM EDT
[#11]
Yea F that! 
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Posted: 10/5/2004 9:52:30 PM EDT
[#12]
It's not too bad... actually played really smooth and gives you the option to choose between 7 different camera angles on the fly. |
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Posted: 10/5/2004 10:59:18 PM EDT
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What a waste. $20m could fund a lot of suicide bombers for Allah.
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Posted: 10/5/2004 11:26:20 PM EDT
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The feather system solved a BUNCH of issues for them in one fell swoop. Makes the vehicle establish a stable re-entry automatically, a stable fall rather then having to deal with actively controlling it every second of the way, lest the vehicle gets sideways (or otherwise out of the envelope). I was also impressed with the short "G" loading on the way down. Means that Joe Sixpack won't have any real trouble dealing with it. They're going to have to work on the instability that appears in several portions of the envelope. Not good for the tourist types. I loved Brian's comment when he reached peak and looked out the upper port "Oh, we're upside down"  Triva note. Mercury spacecraft inserted to orbit heads up. Gemini did it on their side and Apollo inserted heads down (as does the Orbiter). Never have seen a reason for the differences. |
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Posted: 10/5/2004 11:58:06 PM EDT
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Does this thing actually have any manuevering thrusters or anyway to actually really "travel in space" and control itself or does it just fly up barely out of the atmosphere and then kinda fall back into it, right itself and then glide down like it looks like? Still cool just wondering if it's really a "spaceship" like they've named it/describe it...
Could this thing acheive any kind of earth orbit and then re-enter, or would that get into much higher speeds that would bring the super high heat/bounce off the atmosphere thing into play? Forgive the stupid questions, first time I've heard of this, it's pretty cool. |
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Posted: 10/6/2004 12:18:02 AM EDT
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That's about it. Nothing fancy. It's not designed to achieve orbit. Simply goes up and comes down. It does have a Reaction Control System (manuevering thrusters) for controlling the angle at which it reenters the atmosphere. |
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Posted: 10/6/2004 9:19:45 PM EDT
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Like I said above, you can see at least one RCS burn in the video.
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Posted: 10/6/2004 9:44:36 PM EDT
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Coolest aviation event I have ever seen.....
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