Sure is a slow trip towards asteroid mining
To: RightWhale
SpaceDev successfully test fired a motor with its proprietary propellant equal to about one-half the total capacity of the motor. Proprietary.... Bah. If it's a hybrid, they're using LOX and (probably) paraffin. NASA, Stanford, and LockMart have been working hard on this for a while now.
2 posted on
12/11/2003 9:11:47 AM PST by
r9etb
To: RightWhale
Bring back Kiwi B. It produced more thrust with less fuel than any conventional engine.
To: RightWhale
"Spaceshipone",
n, 1. a telephone used to connect a space ship to the ground via a very long wire.
2. A space ship constructed of corn pone.
--Boris
5 posted on
12/11/2003 9:14:37 AM PST by
boris
(The deadliest Weapon of Mass Destruction in History is a Leftist With a Word Processor)
To: KevinDavis
SPDV ping
8 posted on
12/11/2003 9:37:53 AM PST by
RightWhale
(Close your tag lines)
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