LIVE Thread - X43-A Mach 10 Launch

NASA TV Live ^ | 11/16/2004 | JAMBE

[Jambe]

Live thread of 3rd and final X43-A drop.

Drop scheduled approx 5:30 EST. B52 is airborne.

[Moonman62]

Comparing the 2 side by side is not a smart exercise.

I know. The Shuttle isn't even flying right now, and if NASA is smart they won't fly it again.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Give that money to private business and we'd have men living on Mars by now along with having space as an every day type of thing."

I'm still waiting for the day when we all have our personal flying saucers, like in the old "Jetsons" cartoon show.

[Tennessee_Bob]

Only 12' long? Must be really cramped in there.

[ChadGore]

Thank all for the live thread.

Looks like a success.

Pegasus ignition X43A separation and a significant scram jet burn, with maneuvering on decent.

[Joe Boucher]

When I was a kid in school I was told that space flight would be like a flight from la to vegas.
They lied.

[Jambe]

Give that money to private business and we'd have men living on Mars by now along with having space as an every day type of thing."

And I know which 47% of the U.S. population I'd like to see go first!

[PhotoFixer3]

Only 12' long? Must be really cramped in there.

It's unmanned.. it will be developed into new super cruise missles capable of wacking targets from anywhere on Earth Quickly...

[ChadGore]

Re: They lied

LOL . . well at least our cars fly, and world peace is all around us. lol

[PhotoFixer3]

it went over 7,000mph! good job!

[Conservative4Ever]

OK guys...does this mean we get our flying cars I have been promised all my life?? Huh? Huh?

Red

[ChadGore]

it went over 7,000mph! good job!

Here here. Congradulations NASA Engineers on a job well done.

[Steve_Seattle]

"When I was a kid in school I was told that space flight would be like a flight from la to vegas. They lied."

I also remember as a kid seeing projections of futuristic cars, the cars we'd be driving in the year 2000, and they all looked like flying saucers on wheels, with bubble tops, fins, etc. Reality didn't quite turn out that way. LOL

[PhotoFixer3]

OH NO! look IT DIDNT GET OVER 7,000 :( almost... take a look.... speed of sound it appears that the speed of sound changes at different altitudes...

[PhotoFixer3]

altitude of X43A would make it Speed of sound 673mph x 9.32 = 9068.36MPH Still hauling some major butt and a major success at any rate....

[PhotoFixer3]

ish... 6,272.36MPH

[Billthedrill]

Earlier posters stated that there's no pilot. I wonder if anybody remembered to tell the passengers that...

[Cribb]

Poohpah, I think you’ll have to bow to Southtack. He’s more right in that you wouldn’t even have computers if the British hadn’t developed radar & the “magnetron” to get the high frequencies.
The first spin-off in commercial applications and the forerunner of the microwave (I believe) was in the 50’s when Weyrhaeuser Lumber Company used the same principle to heat the glue in plywood. Before that, you always had a scorched side from the heated press.

[demlosers]

The B-52, 008 launch vehicle flew its last test flight. What's going to take its place?

[Poohbah]

Note that I said MINIATURIZATION of computers, not computers themselves.

[tahoeblue]

Anyone have the address of the NASA website with the test results on it? I missed it at the end of the NASA TV broadcast and there are no pointers from the main NASA site.

thanks
-tb