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Two-Stage-to-Orbit Spaceplane Program Shelved

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bad-news dept.

MadMorf writes "According to this article in Aviation Week, for nearly twenty years the USAF and "a team of aerospace contractors" has designed, built and tested a two-stage-to-orbit spaceplane, which could be used for "reconnaissance, satellite-insertion and, possibly, weapons delivery". Now this highly classified project may have been shelved for budgetary reasons."

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  1. I smell something by packetmill · · Score: 0, Troll

    We usually hear about projects aimed at the advancement of humanity being shelved for "budgetary" reasons, which means money needed in the military budget of the world's #1 conqueror,
    G.W."The Phenomenon" Bush.

    But to scrap a project that has military potential for the same reasons? I almost feel heartbroken. What on earth is happening to the world. Someone call you senator or something. Give G.W a ring and tell him our country is doing something reasonable. Stop it.