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I actually had the opportunity to talk to a guy in the know on Constellation/Orion a while back and I mentioned that "supersized Apollo" thing. Y'know what? If you tried to fly a winged spacecraft to the moon and back, you'd burn the wings off in reentry. The Orion design is like that for a reason, not to piss off people who demand their spaceships look like the ones on the teevee.
Futhermore, with the current state of chemical rocketry - which is about as close to perfected as we're ever gonna get - winged spacecraft are of at best marginal use and SSTO is a total pipedream. Accept it and move on.
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Quote:Certainly we have the greater crew capacity, and it might be more advanced because of the inclusion of STS matured technologies, but its still just a bloody scaled up Apollo module!
I actually had the opportunity to talk to a guy in the know on Constellation/Orion a while back and I mentioned that "supersized Apollo" thing. Y'know what? If you tried to fly a winged spacecraft to the moon and back, you'd burn the wings off in reentry. The Orion design is like that for a reason, not to piss off people who demand their spaceships look like the ones on the teevee.
Futhermore, with the current state of chemical rocketry - which is about as close to perfected as we're ever gonna get - winged spacecraft are of at best marginal use and SSTO is a total pipedream. Accept it and move on.
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery
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"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"