September 14th, 2010
Calling Professor Nordheim and Smitty…Calling Steve Zodiac…
The space age may end up looking like I used to think it would after all…
NASA is looking hard at a way to blast spacecraft horizontally down an electrified track or gas-powered sled and into space hitting speeds of about Mach 10. The craft would then return and land on a runway by the launch site.
The rail launcher, known Advanced Space Launch System is one of a few new launch systems a team of engineers from Kennedy Space Center and several other NASA centers are looking at that would use existing cutting-edge technologies to offer the space agency a next generation launcher to the stars, NASA stated.
Ah… Just like us space cadet kids always knew it would be…
December 7th, 2010 at 6:11 pm
Wow that would be a return to the good old days of Fireball XL5
See my version here, going down the track and blasting off.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxIW-G5z_g0