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Bill
08-19-2011, 06:48 PM
http://www.space.com/12544-boeing-space-test-pilot-rocket-launches-cst-100.html


Bill
CPMcGraw
08-19-2011, 08:27 PM
Make it a BEERLOFT instead, and you'll get thousands of volunteers!
blackshire
08-19-2011, 10:24 PM
Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser spaceplane (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Chaser ), which will be launched atop an Atlas V 402 (it has no solid rocket boosters and a two-engine Centaur second stage), makes a scale boost-glider egglofter possible. The same Atlas V booster model could even be used for both--for the CST-100 capsule configuration, just add the single solid rocket booster.