How I regret they didn't pick up from X-30 and hone other true winged spacecraft instead of going back to the future with capsules. Hypersonic flight is still a research frontier for NASA. I know former lifting body engineers are totally nonplussed that all their research has been pushed aside for Orion and NASA Mars and asteroid schemes that the social climate and budget isn't going to eat for a long while.
"The knowledge that we have now is but a fraction of the knowledge we must get, whether for peaceful use or for national defense. We must depend on intensive research to acquire the further knowledge we need ... These are truths that every scientist knows. They are truths that the American people need to understand." (Harry S. Truman 1948).
"The greatest long-term threat to U.S. national security is not terrorists wielding a nuclear or biological weapon, but the erosion of America's place as a world leader in science and technology."
Gordon England: 1st Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security and former Secretary of the Navy
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Well done Nasa. i just listen this news on Aljazeera Live TV
How I regret they didn't pick up from X-30 and hone other true winged spacecraft instead of going back to the future with capsules. Hypersonic flight is still a research frontier for NASA. I know former lifting body engineers are totally nonplussed that all their research has been pushed aside for Orion and NASA Mars and asteroid schemes that the social climate and budget isn't going to eat for a long while.
James Greenidge
Queens NY
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