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Joris _

SPACE.com -- Railway to the Sky? NASA Ponders New Launch System - 3 views

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space technology future

shared by Joris _ on 16 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • A team of engineers from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida and some of the agency's other field centers are looking into this and other novel launch systems based on cutting-edge technologies.
  • The launch system would require some advancements of existing technologies, but it wouldn't need any brand-new technologies to work
  • Scramjet vehicles could be used as a basis for a commercial launch program
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  • It's not very often you get to work on a major technology revolution
  • Juxi Leitner on 16 Sep 10
     
    I wonder if they are also working with that SCRAMSPACE initiative in Australia that was presented at ESTEC a while back...
  • Giusi Schiavone on 19 Sep 10
     
    what about a space elevator!!! quiet old concept (1895), see this link on wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator
nikolas smyrlakis

Google - Moscow-Vladivostok: virtual journey on Google Maps - 1 views

www.google.ru/...en.html

Google trans-siberian journey Russia railway maps

shared by nikolas smyrlakis on 18 Feb 10 - Cached
  • nikolas smyrlakis on 18 Feb 10
     
    the whole trans-siberian journey recorded from a camera, a bit too long to watch everything nevertheless
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