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This Spacecraft Could Change the Future of Space Travel But where are the American backers?

Posted by Paul Collins at 22:24, 19 Apr 2010

Something for TDG http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/...

Imagine a revolutionary new single-stage space vehicle, greatly rivaling the design of the Space Shuttle, boasting these features and capabilities:

1. Instead of using traditional rocket fuel, the vehicle is powered efficiently by silicon-based derivatives of sand (called silanes). Its combustion system is made environmentally safe by using oxygen and nitrogen in the atmosphere.

2. It has a flying saucer-like appearance and takes off horizontally, similar to an airplane, using air while in the atmosphere before switching to an onboard oxidizer after reaching the upper limits of the atmosphere. In this way, it greatly reduces the oxidizer-to-payload ratio problem traditionally found in space flight.

3. It uses the most advanced engine design, making it capable of speeds of more than 9,000 mph in the atmosphere.

Sounds like science fiction? Not quite.

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Posted by Greg on 19 Apr 2010 at about 23:18.

Hi Paul,

Please don't copy full article text to TDG. Feel free though to give a summary, or teaser, and then link to the original (I've edited this post). Thanks!

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Dear Greg, Terribly sorry
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Posted by Paul Collins on 20 Apr 2010 at about 03:18.

Dear Greg,
Terribly sorry about it. I haven't done such a post in eons. Hope you enjoyed it. All the best!
Paul Collins
author of
Mystery of Everyman's Way

looks good
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Posted by thefloppy1 on 20 Apr 2010 at about 11:07.

for a scam......no, actually it does look and sound like a scam.....forgive my cynicism, just seems odd to me.

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