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On NASASpaceflight, a majority of the voters believe in full reusability if you combine all those options (that's why they're various shades of blue).

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Blue Origin's New Glenn (eventually; this is implied by "initially expendable upper stages") and probably New Armstrong (although the latter is just a name for now)

Were the Delta-glider (stock, XR1, DGIV), XR2, and XR5 even simulated in CFD?

Hideo Itokawa is considered to be "the father of Japan's space development." According to this article, Itokawa had told the composer Isao Tomita (the article was written in January 2016 but Tomita had died in May 2016) that "his dream was to dance in a duet with a hologram." So Tomita began...

The irony of a Falcon 9 launching something with wings when Musk believes them to be useless "dead weight in space."

I'm wondering what is the current state of this forum in regards to how its members regard the idea of reusable launch vehicles. On one end, some people believe fully reusable heavy launchers will supplant all other launch vehicles in service today; on the polar opposite, others doubt the...

I go to college in Huntsville, Alabama. So close and yet so far, especially with the expected traffic.

The same person had claimed that a nuclear propulsion system would "explode the cost and weight" of an interplanetary spaceship, implying that it would save money (in development and operations) to just do chemical with reusable tankers and higher flight rates. RonM: guckyfan: It is making...

What do you think of the idea of reusable (SpaceX/Blue Origin-style) chemical launch vehicles actually being more worth it compared to nuclear thermal rocket (or even solar or nuclear-electric propulsion) development? Robotbeat on the NASASpaceflight forum:

Ever since Blue Origin unveiled its plans for the New Glenn launch vehicle in September 2016, I had been unsure of what to do. The original plan was to develop the M-III Heavy and do a lunar mission with a capsule (actually, the real original plan was to involve the RCV, but that would have had...

The article claims that "Musk did not elaborate on the new concept for landing on Mars," but Musk was referring to the ITS's method of re-entering on its side, then pitching over to land. edit: He's implying that there's going to be an experimental mini-ITS in the place of Red Dragon.

I've been playing Overwatch for the past week, and one of the payload escort maps (Gibraltar, which is an orbital launch site according to the lore) involves an "XR-9" satellite drone.

Landed!

After playing Ace Combat 04 and 5 in 2013, I finally played Zero today.

On a somewhat related note, I'm excited that Ace Combat 7 is getting a PC release.

Okay, - recovered without seawater corrosion - first stage of a conventional-styled rocket.

For the first time, an orbital launch vehicle's first stage is recovered twice!