Look like we are going to get part of the future that science fiction said we would get. It not a rendering but an actual test article that will do VTOL tests in SpaceX's Texas launch facility.
I remember about 15 years ago when McDonnell Douglas was test flying the DC-X, a one-third scale version of their VTOL ground-to-orbit vehicle, the Delta Clipper. Had funding not been cut, the next step would have been a a two-thirds scale model, the DC-Y, followed by the DC-Z, a full-scale prototype.
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It’s a great time to be alive. We have Tang, Moon Pies, and now this
I remember about 15 years ago when McDonnell Douglas was test flying the DC-X, a one-third scale version of their VTOL ground-to-orbit vehicle, the Delta Clipper. Had funding not been cut, the next step would have been a a two-thirds scale model, the DC-Y, followed by the DC-Z, a full-scale prototype.
A tail landing rocket ship, just as God And Robert Heinlein intended.
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