Re: Brute force re-entry

From: Allen Meece (navigaiter2002_at_aol.comSpamsuX.retro.com)
Date: 09/08/04 

To: <sci-space-tech@moderators.isc.org>
Date: 08 Sep 2004 03:47:08 GMT

<<> brute force reentry. Hardly as graceful as a good lifting body like
> the cancelled [!?] X-38 would do.

Incorrect. The shuttle has a much higher hypersonic L/D (4.0) than the X-38
(1.4).>>
 Also incorrect. The X-38 would have been more graceful than the brute force
reentry of the shuttle because the shuttle is so darn heavy that its higher
lift ratio would not prevent it from sinking faster than the lighter X-38.

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