Posted on 06/04/2014 4:07:54 PM PDT by equalator
NASA is just about ready to test-launch its so-called flying saucer into the edge of space.
The Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator is literally a flying saucer. The original launch date of June 3 was scrubbed because of weather. The next potential launch date is Thursday, June 5, NASA said.
"The agency is moving forward and getting ready for Mars as part of NASA's Evolvable Mars campaign," said Michael Gazarik, associate administrator for Space Technology at NASA Headquarters, in a news release. "We fly, we learn, we fly again. We have two more vehicles in the works for next year."
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If you mean something like NERVA, it’s a fine idea once you’re already in space but not particularly useful to get there from here.
If you mean something like Orion nuclear pulse propulsion, that’ll work great for getting into space, but you’ll have a tiny PR problem with setting off a thousand nuclear warheads in the atmosphere to do it.
You’re still shooting something hot out the back end of a pointy thing...
Wait until it starts spinning like a turntable.....
If it can generate an EM field, that might be the only way it can actually fly...
Goddard did not put anything into space. Neither did the Chinese who invented the solid fuel rocket which is also used to launch crafts into space.
Goddard was a genius and von Braun took all his knowledge to put the first man made object into space.
Nuclear. My favorite is project orion. BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM etc
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