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#1 2008-02-24 06:46:18

srmeaney
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From: 18 tiwi gdns rd, TIWI NT 0810
Registered: 2005-03-18
Posts: 976

Re: The TOPGEAR space shuttle

TOPGEAR got a small scale 2:1 launch and promptly crashed it in the British Country side when the Liquid fuel stage failed in its stability and went horizontal. The cost of the incident brings the prospect that a Private British Launch group could market the Liquid fuel stage/with 2 solid boosters and put a small secondstage pressurized toolshed on the Moon in a oneway trip for a portion of the cost of the NASA vehicle.

They carved the entire tank from sheet metal with a palsma cutter and assembled in record time. It didnt blow till it impacted so we know it was a simple guidance control issue.

Could the Brits go to the Moon before the Americans?

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#2 2008-02-24 07:24:42

Yang Liwei Rocket
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Registered: 2004-03-03
Posts: 993

Re: The TOPGEAR space shuttle


'first steps are not for cheap, think about it...
did China build a great Wall in a day ?' ( Y L R newmars forum member )

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#3 2008-02-24 10:28:08

Grypd
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From: Scotland, Europe
Registered: 2004-06-07
Posts: 1,879

Re: The TOPGEAR space shuttle

Not a chance these are the same characters who got some of the UKs amateur rocketeers to put some serious solid rockets on a Mini then they launched that car down a ski ramp in Norway.

So no British space shuttle there.


Chan eil mi aig a bheil ùidh ann an gleidheadh an status quo; Tha mi airson cur às e.

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