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Offline DemolitionMan

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X-20 Dyna-Soar Spaceplace Was Decades Ahead of Its Time
« on: September 26, 2017, 09:22:11 am »
BY ROBERT F. DORR   

Decades before the space shuttle, U. S. Air Force officers and scientists were working on the Dyna-Soar, a single-pilot, reusable spaceplane that would have been boosted aloft by a Titan rocket. Before the heyday of unmanned aerial vehicles, an Air Force film spoke of the “emphasis on having a man on board” and of the new spaceplane requiring “the cool hand of a skilled pilot.” Before the digital age, the Dyna-Soar had a remarkably clean and functional cockpit, although it was cramped and festooned with toggle switches and round dials. Before heat-resistant ceramic tiles were used for shuttle re-entry, they were being studied for use on the Dyna-Soar.

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Re: X-20 Dyna-Soar Spaceplace Was Decades Ahead of Its Time
« Reply #1 on: September 26, 2017, 09:24:56 am »
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"Of Arms and Man I Sing"-The Aenid written by Virgil-Virgil commenced his epic story of Aeneas and the founding of Rome with the words: Arma virumque cano--"Of arms and man I sing.Aeneas receives full treatment in Roman mythology, most extensively in Virgil's Aeneid, where he is an ancestor of Romulus and Remus. He became the first true hero of Rome

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Re: X-20 Dyna-Soar Spaceplace Was Decades Ahead of Its Time
« Reply #2 on: September 26, 2017, 11:32:34 am »
IMO, Apollo was a showboat while Dyna-Soar would have been worthwhile.
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