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And the Orion Capsule is bringing this old-school way of flying into the 21st Century.
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Yes, unfortunately. Β
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In order for spaceplane-based systems, a next-gen Space Shuttle if you will, to become safe enough to use again, we need drastically improved propulsion technologies, Star Trek-like fusion-powered Impulse Engines ideally, so that we can eliminate the need for a giant external tank and solid rocket boosters.
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I'm willing to wait until someone takes the SpaceShipTwo system, and upgrades it to TSTO capability by developing a hypersonic version of the WhiteKnight carrier plane.Β
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Hmm...intriguing... do you think a TSTO SpaceShipTwo could be upgraded further to get any cargo loads to orbit? Β I know Space-X already getting some of the unmanned satellite launches now, but if the SpaceShipTwo system is capable of being uprated to TSTO and so now basic fully orbital commercial tourism missions could be done, could the same platform permit building of a private space station? Β Kind of a stretch I know, just asking. Β Space-X still hasn't yet gotten to the point of recovering their boosters yet.
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Forget Space-X, and their 1950's way of thinking.
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Why is this a bad thing? Β We never lost any astronauts in-flight during Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo, while during the Space Shuttle program, we lost two orbiters and 14 astronauts, the entire crew on both flights, of STS-51L and STS-107. Β The fact that on Orion and the SLS and related systems that the crew module can detach from the launch system should the crap hit the fan during a launch, along with the fact there will no longer be any vulnerable, fragile wings to be damaged by launch debris means the Crew Module on-top-of-launch-vehicle system is inherently SIMPLER and therefore SAFER.
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What I meant was that ordinary people will never be able to ride in capsule designs, due to the high g forces both on the way up, and on the way down during re-entry.
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