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#2 2008-01-06 16:22:18

JoshNH4H
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Re: Shuttle in Suborbit?

What's the point?  Suborbit is more or less useless.  If you want to go there, your balloon thing would work, for suborbit only.  Also, there's Spaceship 1, which is scalable- In other words, you can just make the design bigger, and thae a proportionally bigger amount to suborbit.

But what do you plan on doing once in suborbit for a matter of minutes?


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#3 2008-01-07 05:16:24

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Re: Shuttle in Suborbit?

Did you actually check out the site for once. The suborbital spaceplane would deploy the payload at its apogee which would have another rocket on it to get into orbit. Kind of like having two stages, both manned. Check out the link before commenting.


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#4 2008-01-07 20:55:47

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Re: Shuttle in Suborbit?

I've read out that site already.  1 1/2 stages?  Firstly, nonsense.  Secondly, already proposed.  Thirdly, modify the shuttle?  What do you mean?


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