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Armadillo Aerospace Flight Paves Way For Science Payloads
Matt_dk writes "Armadillo Aerospace conducted two groundbreaking atmospheric test flights this weekend with their 'Mod' vertical-takeoff-vertical-landing rocket, a vehicle familiar to anyone who has followed NASA's Lunar Lander Challenge competitions. Flying from their test facility in Caddo Mills, Texas, Armadillo Aerospace first completed a milestone flight under a NASA contract, using methane fuel and liquid oxygen as propellant. Later that same afternoon, a second successful low-altitude flight was performed using a 'boosted hop' trajectory of the same type that will be used for suborbital flights to space."
I didn't realize armadillo's could fly at all, much less suborbitally.
Blast! I had just escaped the apostrophe Nazis too.
Nobody escapes the apostrophe Nazis!
XML is a known as a key material required to create SMD: Software of Mass Destruction
You put enough speed behind anything, and it'll fly. Now it might burn up due to friction with the atmosphere, but rest assure that it will fly (until there's nothing left of it.)
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No, he meant Nobody escapes the apostrophe Nazi\'s!
You cannot escape ze Apostrophe Nazis! Ve duped Apostrophe Neville Chamberlain and conquered Apostrophe Austria, and ve vill soon invade Apostrophe Poland!
(Personally, I much prefer the amusement of quote nazis)
Dear Lord: One of your creatures may be hurt tonight. Please let it be the other creature.
A boosted hop (I guess genetically modified) may be useful for making beer? But why does it have a trajectory?
Why bother