Briefs: Orion land landings; Boeing scramjets; Russian orbital assembly facility

NASA's 21st century spaceship might be able to parachute onto land after all: Overweight Orion may result in landing solution - NASA SpaceFlight.com
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Hypersonics programs at Boeing:
/-- Boeing Frontiers Magazine - Feb. 08 issue (pdf) - see page 30.
/-- Boeing Ready To Run At Blackswift - Aviation Week
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Talk in Russia of an orbital assembly facility in the 2015-2020 time frame:
/-- Russia To Build an Orbital Construction Plant - Slashdot
/-- Russia to build orbiting space factory: Site could manufacture spacecraft for Mars and beyond - Vunet.com (Via Dan Schrimpsher).
/-- A Space Race To Worry About - Transterrestrial Musings

Posted 04/14/08 | 08:54:58 by TopSpacer | Filed under: General

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Boeing and Blackswift....the big commercial aerospace companies are reaping the rewards of TBCC and RBCC research through DOD contracts. They are developing a technology foundation for the future which I fear will soon eclipse the private space rocket based efforts. Leaving only a small extreme tourist (thrill ride) niche market to fill. Should one of the aerospace giants commercialize this technology RLV CATS is in the bag for them. Come on guys get with it!Lifting body air breathers are coming! And the clock is ticking....

Vis Viva

Posted by Doug at 04/14/08 19:58:27

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another "developed internally..." idea from NASA to have a mass saving Orion's landing on LAND option:

http://www.ghostnasa.com/po...

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Posted by gm at 04/14/08 20:19:38

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