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I hate horizontal takeoff orbital vehicles so much.
The whole idea of horizontal flight in a vehicle with enough propellant to achieve orbital velocity is so stupid.

NASP had to achieve Mach 25 on scramjets in order to make any kind of sense (no this wasn't feasible).
And it would still probably be the most complex and expensive aircraft in history and deliver like 5 tons to orbit.

Just incredible what people will look over to have a cool space plane or 'airport operations', this shit makes the X-33 look extremely reasonable.