Posted on 04/03/2006 6:18:30 PM PDT by KevinDavis
A team from Scaled Composites, Boeing and the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) was expected to attempt a drop test of the X-37 approach and landing test vehicle (ALTV) reusable spaceplane over the Edwards AFB test range in California around 1 April.
The X-37 technology demonstrator, which was transferred from NASA to DARPA in September 2004, was originally part of a planned series of reusable space plane demonstrators known as Future X, which was aimed at developing technology for a Space Shuttle replacement.
(Excerpt) Read more at flightglobal.com ...
Look at that thing. My goodness it's hideous.
Does that look like an airplane or a bomb?
One of the problems of space flight, as exemplified by the STS debacle, is that things that fly at high velocity suffer the consequences of high velocity. Force increases with velocity squared and all that.
I never will trust an airplane that looks like a bomb.
A hideous looking spacecraft that looks like a mole rat.
If that is the only lifeboat handy, bet you climb in.
Jeez...
(I'm sorry...You didn't come down. You flunk.)
It doesn't have to be pretty, it just has to work.
Lifeboat?
I'm not leaving terra firma.
Not for that POS.
LOL
Believe it was a Nasa lifeboat for space station or maybe COLUMBIA, but funds cut.
Translated properly it's Newton's opinions.
Cogito, ergo Principia Mathematika.
"...it's not just a rule, it's the LAW."
If its a law then all we have to do is put a liberal in charge. They'll ignore it and bingo, you have space travel, anti-gravity, all kinds of things.
Other recent stories:
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/060331_x37_update.html
http://www.dailynews.com/antelopevalley/ci_3637266
Nothing yet at:
http://www.scaled.com
liberals would make pi=3.0, by fiat...
Those new to story see also earlier FR thread:
The X-37 Spaceplane to Fly At Mojave Spaceport
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1607196/posts
LOL
That's right - FUNCTION OVER FORM.
Form can follow after function, but never before.
Ya want pretty spaceships? Stick with the SciFi Channel.
The real world has to work within the laws of physics.
The Indiana Pi Bill, 1897 (pops)
This is Indiana House Bill No. 246, 1897, known as the Indiana pi bill. Towards the end of section 2 it says plainly that "The ratio of the diameter and circumference is as five-fourths to four," which means pi is 3.2.
Pretty stupid, if you ask anyone who has taken trig.
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