Re: NASA Administrator Agrees With What Many Critics Have Been Saying for Years



On or about 7 Oct 2005 16:03:25 -0700, tomcat <jlavine@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> made the sensational claim that:
> Barbara Needham wrote:
>> tomcat <jlavine@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > onetheless, however, the Shuttle did prove that hypersonic flight is
>> > possible.
>>
>> ????
> The Space Shuttle is doing about 17,500 mph in orbit. This is about
> mach 24. When reentering the Earth's atmosphere it is going at a high
> mach speed.

Hypersonic flight was demonstrated long before the shuttle was thought of.
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