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I watched the original Six Million Dollar Man movie the other day. To my surprise Steve Austin crashed the original Dream Chaser prototype!!! I was dumbfounded

• ben_w 2y ago
  The M2-F2 and HL-10 lifting body designs? There's only so many basic shapes that actually work, this isn't like sci-fi where we can make interesting swooshy bits that look cool and have it still function. So we've got capsules for no-glide landings, and things that look like a plane for use-cases that do want to glide during landing. We're not going to get something that looks like an Eagle from Space: 1999 unless someone figures out a form of propulsion that's not dependent on the rocket equation or aerodynamics, such as pushing directly against the Earth's magnetic field or something.
  • stoneman24 2y ago
    We also had the mustard space plane, back in the 60’s. The idea/sketch is one thing but the actual engineering and funding is something else. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAC_Mustard https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAC_Mustard
    • KennyBlanken 2y ago
      Please stop linking to the mobile version of wikipedia.