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To: setha
Throwing out the Shuttle completely and revisiting Apollo was the step backwards.

Really? I guess you don't know much about aerodynamics then. An airplane is stupid for re-entry; all the wrong places get heated, as we saw well in 2003 when the shuttle broke up over TX, and in the X-15 program when Mike Adams got killed.

The best re-entry shape is a cone, a blunt lifting body. Thousands of missile research programs bore that out. But no, we had to have Buck Rogers in the mythical airplane-shaped spacecraft. It was stupid from the get-go, and that is an aerodynamic fact.

17 posted on 01/24/2015 10:18:22 PM PST by backwoods-engineer (Blog: www.BackwoodsEngineer.com)
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To: backwoods-engineer

There’s no need to be rude, though, with your comments.


18 posted on 01/24/2015 10:40:30 PM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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