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SpaceDev to Build Piloted Spaceship
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| 09/20/04
| Tarig Malik
Posted on 09/20/2004 6:30:54 PM PDT by KevinDavis
The aerospace firm SpaceDev cast its hat into the ring of private human spaceflight today, announcing its plans to build a reuseable spacecraft that may one day carry passengers into orbit.
Based in Poway, California, SpaceDev is designing a piloted sub-orbital spacecraft that could eventually be scaled up for orbital flights. The effort springs from a partnership between SpaceDev and NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California to explore hybrid propulsion-based hypersonic testbeds for routine human spaceflight.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: privateindustry; space; spacedev
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posted on
09/20/2004 6:32:07 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
To: KevinDavis
To: KevinDavis
This is total gibberish. Something may have gotten into the water in Poway.
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posted on
09/21/2004 8:46:12 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
To: KevinDavis
What about Rutan's SpaceShipOne?
I thought they were prime contractor for the engine?
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posted on
09/21/2004 8:48:31 AM PDT
by
Barney59
(Honesty is the only policy)
To: Barney59
SpaceDev did produce Rutan's hybrid rocket motor. They also have other rocket engine projects in the works. Success breeds success.
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posted on
09/22/2004 11:04:58 AM PDT
by
anymouse
("Four more years. No Moore movies." - the other Dick Cheney)
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