Spaceflight 🚀 · @spaceflight
1615 followers · 1454 posts · Server techhub.social#POLARIS #Spaceplanes #aerospike powered demonstrator testing between September and December https://europeanspaceflight.com/polaris-to-begin-testing-fourth-spaceplane-demonstrator-from-september
#polaris #spaceplanes #aerospike
Steve Dustcircle ⍻ · @dustcircle
47 followers · 1247 posts · Server mastodon.cloudThe Tragic Tale Of How #NASA #SpacePlanes Ended Up In Someone’s Backyard
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-tragic-tale-of-how-nasa-s-x-34-space-planes-ended-up-rotting-in-someone-s-backyard?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Adamas Nemesis · @adamasnemesis
700 followers · 4603 posts · Server social.adamasnemesis.com
This baby should have been the successor to the Space Shuttle. Sure, SSTO wasn't practical, but this same sort of airframe, launched on an off-the-shelf Atlas V? Would have worked great, and been the coolest and sexiest spacecraft of all time. The public would have *loved* it.
Image is late 1990s NASA concept art of the McDonnell Douglas X-33.
#spacecraft #spaceflight #history #alternatehistory #thoughts #spaceplanes
#spacecraft #spaceflight #history #alternatehistory #thoughts #spaceplanes
Adamas Nemesis · @adamasnemesis
570 followers · 3787 posts · Server social.adamasnemesis.com
My piece "Two generations of spaceplanes", making the subsonic vs hypersonic optimized spaceframes look charming I think.
#art #MastoArt #digitalart #spaceships #spaceflight #spaceplanes #spacecraft #sketch #drawing
#art #MastoArt #digitalart #spaceships #spaceflight #spaceplanes #spacecraft #sketch #drawing
Adamas Nemesis · @adamasnemesis
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Presidential survival in surprise nuclear war has focused on bunkers deep under the White House, but why not rapid escape instead: a rocket?
Read more at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2022/05/23/deep-underground-launch-center/
This post's featured image is "Don't look back" by me (yes, it's just a quick-and-dirty drawing of my idea).
#nuclearwar #apocalypse #civildefense #WorldWarIII #armageddon #nuclearstrategy #strategy #technology #aircraft #spaceflight #spaceplanes
#blog #nuclearwar #apocalypse #civildefense #WorldWarIII #armageddon #nuclearstrategy #strategy #technology #aircraft #spaceflight #spaceplanes
Adamas Nemesis · @adamasnemesis
570 followers · 3787 posts · Server social.adamasnemesis.com
Behind its unassuming mini-shuttle image, the category of lifting bodies is home to some of history's coolest and most futuristic spacecraft.
Read more at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2022/05/20/catching-a-lift/
This post's featured image is a NASA rendering of the McDonnell Douglas concept for the X-33, a high-performance lifting body.
#history #technology #worldbuilding #scifi #sciencefiction #alternatehistory #spaceplanes #spaceflight #futurism #spacecraft
#blog #history #technology #worldbuilding #SciFi #sciencefiction #alternatehistory #spaceplanes #spaceflight #futurism #spacecraft