Comments on: Virgin unveils first commercial spaceliner http://stilgherrian.com/business/virgin_spaceliner/ All publication is a political act. All communication is propaganda. All art is pornography. All business is personal. All hail Eris. Vive le poisson rouge sauvages! Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:24:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Stilgherrian http://stilgherrian.com/business/virgin_spaceliner/#comment-10041 Stilgherrian Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:49:51 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/sydney/virgin_spaceliner/#comment-10041 <strong>@Richard:</strong> You know, I was wondering whether to mention <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-20_Dyna-Soar">Dyna-Soar</a> or not. When I was a kid some "amazing engineering" book enthused about the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-15">X-15</a> and Dyna-Soar, and I was hanging out for it. I loved the angular, ugly, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XB-70_Valkyrie">XB-70 Valkyrie</a>, and another book I had told me that once the Space Shuttle was built there's be a flight to orbit every week. Yeah right. Where is <a href="http://www.crikey.com.au/Politics/20071003-Sputnik-2-the-space-age-Australia-never-had.html">The Space Age we Never Had</a>? Re-reading the Dyna-Soar article is yet another reminder that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silbervogel">Nazi Germany did it all first</a>. What's not to like? Oh, yeah. That <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust">Holocaust</a> thing... @Richard: You know, I was wondering whether to mention Dyna-Soar or not. When I was a kid some “amazing engineering” book enthused about the X-15 and Dyna-Soar, and I was hanging out for it. I loved the angular, ugly, XB-70 Valkyrie, and another book I had told me that once the Space Shuttle was built there’s be a flight to orbit every week.

Yeah right.

Where is The Space Age we Never Had?

Re-reading the Dyna-Soar article is yet another reminder that Nazi Germany did it all first. What’s not to like?

Oh, yeah. That Holocaust thing…

]]> By: Richard http://stilgherrian.com/business/virgin_spaceliner/#comment-10035 Richard Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:56:11 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/sydney/virgin_spaceliner/#comment-10035 Burt Rutan, the Gaudi of aerospace. Damned if that spacecraft doesn't look like the old Dyna-Soar design. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-20_Dyna-Soar Burt Rutan, the Gaudi of aerospace.

Damned if that spacecraft doesn’t look like the old Dyna-Soar design.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-20_Dyna-Soar

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