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Offline VirginiaJim

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New space SUV
« on: March 26, 2014, 04:20:42 AM »
The Dream Chaser - service starting in 2017.  Why that's just around the corner...

http://theaviationist.com/2014/01/28/dream-chaser-video/

Interesting that it looks like a space shuttle on the end of a stick..  Rocket isn't reusable and it's really for carrying passengers than cargo, although all the seats fold down (kinda like my old Rambler station wagon).  It can fly without a pilot if carrying lots of cargo.


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Re: New space SUV
« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2014, 05:47:03 AM »
I like the fuzzy dice on the dash at the end of the video.
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Re: New space SUV
« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2014, 05:52:48 AM »
Nice touch.
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Re: New space SUV
« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2014, 10:36:17 AM »
I'm worried already, that was Windows XP they were using.
Granted XP was good, but can't they at least use modern computers to develop it?


Ok, the release and land was way cool.
Plus I bet that was without a pilot.
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Re: New space SUV
« Reply #4 on: March 26, 2014, 11:00:59 AM »
XP still has a few days left before it blows up.  April 8th is the end date.  Here's a fact sheet I wrote a while back.
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Re: New space SUV
« Reply #5 on: March 26, 2014, 05:00:13 PM »
Didn't Steve Austin crash in one of those?
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Re: New space SUV
« Reply #6 on: March 27, 2014, 02:37:53 PM »
That looks like an X-38, on the front, we saw being moth balled when a few of us got a "behind the scenes" tour of JSC back in 2005/2006(?). 

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Re: New space SUV
« Reply #7 on: March 28, 2014, 04:23:29 AM »
It certainly does, but actually the design goes back to 1966 and the HL-10 from Northrop.  Either way, it looks like they're not re-inventing the wheel with the Dream Chaser.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_HL-10
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