Quote:When I say "diecast toy," I'm not exaggerating. It's literally just steel plate welded together in a rough approximation of a Shuttle's shape. At least Pegasus was designed to have mockup controls, avonics and crew spaces. Pathfinder doesn't have *any* of that. Getting it to fly would be like dipping a Tonka truck into handwavium and expecting it to start driving around.
Stick some sort of engines on the back of it (maybe ion drives, like the Epsilon Blade has), and you're halfway to something that can fly once 'waved. This means it was an (un)official NASA project, though, since whoever did it would need free access to Pathfinder.
Quote:"You're under the erroneous impression that I *care* about your weird little impulse buys. There will be no deals here; I don't care if you buy Shuttles in bulk and start naming them after the '56 Dodgers, Columbia goes to the Soviet Air Force as per the licensing agreement - we get our pick of the first available vehicles.
"Damn it, Mal, I already bought the name from NASA, two years ago! But I'm a reasonable man, and you're my little girl's boss, so I'll let you have it - if you agree to give me free access to the Soviet Air Force's still images. When I bought NASA's unclassified intellectual assets, I got the Astronomy Picture of the Day website, and I need content, damn it..."
"And if you want content for APoD, sack up and ask the astronomers for it!"---
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