PB666 Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 3 hours ago, hemr said: Space shuttle was inherently a bad idea. Actually the concept behind the idea is good, a reusable spacecraft. But the way they went for it was bad. The thought only went to the fact that it need to come back as a plane was the bad idea. That concept will add unnecessary weight in the way of wings and pilot controls and uses a runway to land. This weight we can avoid. To have reusablity, I am sure it costed more than the throwaway rocket launching costs. Propulsive landing is the best, it takes much smaller total rocket to acheive the same thing shuttle did. Space X Falcon rocket. And it's first stage sucessfully came back for reuse. There is a lot of work to be done in this area, but the path which SpaceX takes is the best path. Low cost, less fuel, and safe landing. Talk about necro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B787_300 Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 Locked as this is a OLD post (2014 yikes) If you would like to discuss it please start a new thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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