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Blue Origins, update |
Jan 4 2007, 02:47 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 163 Joined: 16-March 05 From: Oakville, Ontario, Canada Member No.: 201 |
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Jan 5 2007, 09:50 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1870 Joined: 20-February 05 Member No.: 174 |
X33 was a good idea to follow up the DC-X with, but a lot of space activists think NASA picked "the wrong horse" for bad internal and political reasons, then badly mismanaged the program. The "Space Access Society" had a long series of Space Access Updates during the sad course of X-33 and was pretty consistent in pointing out things NASA was doing wrong, explaining why, and predicting what they were going to blow next. I'd ***REALLY*** like to see a post mortem on the program, both technical and political/bureaucratic.
I'd like, for example to see a final predict based on test stand results of the flight weight and specific impulse of the linear aerospike engine vs a bell-nozzle design with the same turbopumps and related hardware. |
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