Re: Can't We call the early Atlas a SSTO?
- From: Monte Davis <monte.davis@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:27:59 GMT
John Halpenny <j.halpenny@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
When hypersonic aircraft are available for other uses, they will be
used as launchers.
This is so obvious, but apparently so hard to grasp for many space
fans. Probably because many popular variations on the "where the
Shuttle went wrong" mythology share the premise -- explicit or
implicit -- that if NASA had only had a few billion more, a little
more nerve and determination and vision, they could have come up with
that big hypersonic first stage in the 1970s.
.
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