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  • Blue Origin "New Shepard RLV"

    There's been a mystery private space program fot the last couple of years operating under the name Blue Origin. Well funded by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos the design has been a close held secret until now.

    The FAA has published the environmental impact statement, and right there on the cover is a rendering of the ship - named the "New Shepard RLV" (reusable launch vehicle);



    Look familiar? It should. It's a dead ringer for the Boeing DC-X "Delta Clipper";



    Delta Clipper took off vertically but could then translate sideways, hover then land on its tail.
    Dr. Mordrid
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    So what's the connection?
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      The connection is that NASA has been licensing off a lot of their canceled programs to private space companies for further development, and it appears to be bearing fruit.

      DC-X, the Delta Clipper, was a project to explore single stage to orbit. BTW: aeroshell by Rutans Scaled Composites.

      Bigelow started his very successful inflatable habitat program by licensing NASA's TransHab tech and improving on it. Genesis I was orbited a couple of months ago and Genesis II goes up after the first of the year. The first human-rated Sundancer goes up ~2009-2010.



      SpaceDev's Dream Chaser private spaceplane is the HL-20 10 passenger 'space taxi' NASA developed to take crews to the ISS so as to free up the shuttle. Canceled by NASA as well. SpaceDev's version is to be a 6 seater and use multiple hybrid rockets.


      Last edited by Dr Mordrid; 2 November 2006, 22:27.
      Dr. Mordrid
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      An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.

      I carry a gun because I can't throw a rock 1,250 fps

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