/sci/ - Science & Math

>>16148739
It was going to put all the other rocket companies out of business so it had to go.

>>16135126
Yes.

>>16104725
It will be glorious.

>>16094793

>>15928051
Yes.

>>15900442
reading up on some of the things congress did to cockblock space exploration is downright depressing.

>build working test model that is like 90% done
>build launchpad
>at some point in the project you go from composite tanks to aluminuim ones, actually making the x-33 lighter in the process.
>congress steps in and claims the project is a failure because they cant get the coposite tanks to work and pulls the funding.
>US army steps in and wants to fund the project because it's already mostly done.
>congress tells them they cant.

So nasa had at some point a launchpad that was ready, a SSTO "spaceplane" that was almost finished, and no money left to finish the project and find out of the damn thing actually would work.
I know a lot of anons here on /sfg/ are very anti aerospike, but i would have liked to see the X-33 fly at least once to find out how bad or good aerospikes really where.

>>15885372
Yes.