[driftdiver]

[GeronL]

sounds kind of cool.

[True Republican Patriot]

Too Bad! One more Program for OBOZO to screw up.......

[driftdiver]

ping

[FrdmLvr]

NASA? Is that anything like NASSA?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6xJzAYYrX8

[MGMSwordsman]

So, when does the Zero administration cancel the funding for this project?

[tlb]

Aviation Week says our alternative to a booster launch for space planes is the upgraded B-70/Sr-3 airlifter based at Groom Lake.

“A large “mothership,” closely resembling the U.S. Air Force’s historic XB-70 supersonic bomber, carries the orbital component conformally under its fuselage, accelerating to supersonic speeds at high altitude before dropping the spaceplane. The orbiter’s engines fire and boost the vehicle into space. If mission requirements dictate, the spaceplane can either reach low Earth orbit or remain suborbital.”

http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_generic.jsp?channel=awst&id=news/030606p1.xml

Looking at the x37 image I wonder if it is too heavy for the airlifter. You get no idea of proportions. Also I wonder do the stabilizers fold down for stowage in the booster shroud.