/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12570147
I'm partial to this thing. At first I hated it but it's really grown on me. https://youtu.be/ywbfCBxZ2uA

>>12453367

>>12175787
>It seems more likely to me that what happened is that there were some secret tests of a suborbital airlaunched rocketplane and its capabilities grew in the telling.

This is my belief as well, though by ""sub-orbital"" I wouldn't be surprised if they meant "Vandenberg to Diego Garcia in a single shot". I'll bet that the hydrolox/kerolox sub-orbital spaceplane testbed was flown, and that the pentaborane rocket worked on the test stand, but that the program was cancelled before they were able to integrate them in the 80% complete orbital test article.

There's no way that MAKS wasn't designed to counter *something*, though, and that "something" was pretty clealy *not* the space shuttle.