At 11:43 PM 9/21/2005 +1000, you wrote:
>space ship 1 flew 100km (and change) straight up then came down again (like
>a rock)
>to actually stay "up" at that point you have to execute a left turn and
>accelerate to 25 times the speed of sound or 7 kilometers per second (give
>or take)
>IE there is a fair way to go yet
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu]On Behalf
> > Of James Humes
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 23:15
> > To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> > Subject: Re: [OT] FW: NASA RELEASES PLANS FOR NEXT GENERATION SPACECRAFT
> >
> >
> > I liked the philosophy of the plane that won the X-prize. I'm not clear if
> > it made it far enough up to get OUT into space, but I think it proved the
> > concept. Why not get into space with a smaller vessel that is
> > less expensive
> > to launch and then fly over to a space dock to pick up your space-only
> > plane. Then you could maybe dock the earth-space vessel to your space-only
> > craft and carry it with you as you go to where ever you're going.
> > You'd use
> > the earth-space vessel as a shuttle craft to the planets we visit
> > (after, of
> > course, having Mr. Data launch unmanned probes to the planet to
> > let us know
> > what kind of atmosphere we're dealing with and what kind of fuel
> > we'll need
> > to get home).
> >  Just a thought...
> >  James
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