Xref: utzoo sci.aeronautics:82 sci.space:14293 sci.space.shuttle:3711 Newsgroups: sci.aeronautics,sci.space,sci.space.shuttle Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: X-30, Space Station Strangles NASP Message-ID: <1989Sep30.220055.28004@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <4983@omepd.UUCP> <1989Sep29.164255.28849@utzoo.uucp> <5292@eos.UUCP> Date: Sat, 30 Sep 89 22:00:55 GMT In article <5292@eos.UUCP> eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) writes: >Yeah, I think Henry and I agree on this one. We need more X-30 >type programs. And its not clear what kinds of directions are needed. >We sort of got side tracked from the X-15/X-20 lines of doing things.... >There's a lot of research required for sustained hypersonic flight. Actually, I was thinking of space launchers in general rather than hypersonic flight in particular -- I'm actually not convinced that hypersonic flight is the way to go for cheap spaceflight -- but the point still holds: too many ideas with potentially large payoffs are languishing on the ground instead of being tested in flight. -- "Where is D.D. Harriman now, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology when we really *need* him?" | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu