I thought cargo DC was unpiloted. Why are a bunch of pilots hanging out in this party thread? OK hotshots... I'm not a pilot but who knows what I'm sitting in?
Well it is my birthday today, a successful Dreamchaser ALT test would be a nice present
If the Dreamchaser ALT is scrubbed today how is tomorrow looking?
And before I die I hope to hear someone say "Eddy Tower, this is DreamChaser rollin' in on final, I'll get the gear in the flare." (You might be a Space Geek if you get the reference.)
I have a dream, that one day the skies over Edwards will once again echo with a double sonic boom announcing the arrival of a Dream Chaser cargo spacecraft.
Quote from: JAFO on 10/27/2017 04:38 amAnd before I die I hope to hear someone say "Eddy Tower, this is DreamChaser rollin' in on final, I'll get the gear in the flare." (You might be a Space Geek if you get the reference.)From "At Home in Space: The Late Seventies into the Eighties"By Ben Evans
Quote from: JAFO on 10/26/2017 07:03 amI have a dream, that one day the skies over Edwards will once again echo with a double sonic boom announcing the arrival of a Dream Chaser cargo spacecraft. Or possibly Kourou. Despite what people may think DC remains the most cutting edge current vehicle that has actually been built.
It was advanced in 1982. The state of the art in lifting bodies maybe hasn't advanced enough to make it not advanced now.
Quote from: john smith 19 on 11/06/2017 11:40 pmQuote from: JAFO on 10/26/2017 07:03 amI have a dream, that one day the skies over Edwards will once again echo with a double sonic boom announcing the arrival of a Dream Chaser cargo spacecraft. Or possibly Kourou. Despite what people may think DC remains the most cutting edge current vehicle that has actually been built. ...based on a Soviet test spacecraft that first flew in 1982. So be careful with that hyberbole, it is very selective.
It's a party thread. Party on...
Oh goodie, the return of “lifting bodies are great and capsules are dumb”. Lifting bodies aren’t inherently more advanced than capsules.
Also, docking with ISS doesn’t make something “crew rated” (an increasingly widely applied term these days).