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More on the Orbital Space Plane

Posted by michael on from the now-30%-less-likely-to-explode dept.

AP has a decent piece looking at NASA's orbital space plane program, and describing it as a sedan compared to a tractor-trailer. National polls show that public support for the space program continues to be very strong.

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  1. Why settle for a sedan? by mdvolm · · Score: 5, Funny

    I, for one, would rather see NASA go with the "overpowered sports-car" model (AKA Ferrari). Those pictures of the "sedan" models aren't nearly sleek enough.

    Let's build a Star Wars style ship and paint it Empire black! Yeah! Now that would increase the support for the space program. It's all about marketing...

    1. Re:Why settle for a sedan? by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


      They only have to be sleek for entering atmosphere. I'd like to see a real Borg-like cube with the NASA logo on the side.

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  2. Maybe NASA could... by Kotukunui · · Score: 5, Funny

    enter this design in the X-prize competition and win themselves $10 million.

    1. Re:Maybe NASA could... by Squareball · · Score: 3, Funny

      Or in other words "enough money for a new men's room toilet seat" in government dollars that is ;)

  3. Re:Not a shuttle replacement by dkf · · Score: 3, Funny
    What they should do is [...] have the humans do what they need to do to the payload once it is in space (such as [...] activation).
    Surely they could type the numbers in from the front of the printed manual before they launch the equipment into space? It's not exactly rocket science...
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  4. Maybe they are suffering from penis envy.... by LordChaos · · Score: 4, Funny

    From the article:

    "We're doing everything we can to get it up by 2008"

    Have they tried viagra??