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NASA 'Hyper-X' Series Scramjets

Posted by michael on from the ginger-ale-peanuts-and-oxygen-mask dept.

swight1701 writes "Sciencedaily.com is reporting that NASA has revealed its plans for developing Hypersonic aircraft within 2 decades. These plans include planes that could routinely go Mach 5+ and capable of taking off from an airport and visiting the IIS, or for you earthbound folk, from one airport to any other within 2 hours. And you thought your luggage gets lost NOW.:)" NASA's release includes some graphics showing what the test vehicles look like.

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  1. Visiting the IIS... by Muad'Dave · · Score: 4, Funny
    and visiting the IIS...

    If I want to visit the IIS, I'll just go into the computer room, thank you. Oh, you mean the ISS...

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