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SLS / Orion / Beyond-LEO HSF - Constellation => Orion and Exploration Vehicles => Topic started by: Chris Bergin on 05/03/2005 05:52 pm
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http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/content/?id=39
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"While Shuttle bashers on various internet message boards continue to ridicule the notion that winged/lifting body vehicles have no need for the wings - a correct point in reference to the operation of a vehicle in space - Lockheed Martin explained their reasoning for continuing along the lines of a space plane."
Heh, very funny
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jurgen - 4/5/2005 9:09 AM
"While Shuttle bashers on various internet message boards continue to ridicule the notion that winged/lifting body vehicles have no need for the wings - a correct point in reference to the operation of a vehicle in space - Lockheed Martin explained their reasoning for continuing along the lines of a space plane."
Heh, very funny
No prizes for where the inspiration for that came from ;) It's nice editing your own stuff ;)
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http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/space/1534782.html
The popular mechanics article has some more cutaway pictures of the lockheed CEV proposal.
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Great looking ship.
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I was just commentating on the VentureStar thread that it's interesting how the CEV (Lockheed Martin's) is like a slim version of the body of the X-33. Seems they do have a love for this type of design. It does look great all the same.
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FransonUK - 5/5/2005 12:16 AM
I was just commentating on the VentureStar thread that it's interesting how the CEV (Lockheed Martin's) is like a slim version of the body of the X-33. Seems they do have a love for this type of design. It does look great all the same.
Both lifting bodies.
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Interesting story on the front page. Can Lockheed Martin get that built in time or does this give the advantage to the Boeing people on the capsule plan?
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You'd have to say yes cause it would have been pretty stupid of them to even design that without an ability to get it built.
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It looks complicated to me. Not to mention heavy. I think it'd be far quicker to develop and qualify a simple sea-landing capsule than a lifting body, but what do I know?
Don't worry, though. Boeing may yet find a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Check the combination parachute/rocket landing system on their capsule CEV:
http://exploration.nasa.gov/documents/reports/cer_final/Schafer.pdf
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Hmmm. looks like 1950/60 design, can't say I rate it.