Without a military space plane, there is no way the Air Force can become the Air and Space Force.
If your secret space plane's in orbit and doing its secret thing well enough, why bother bringing it home?
The programs in question are the Clementine II asteroid intercept experiment, the Army's Kinetic Kill Anti-Satellite Weapon and the Military Space Plane.
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The agency has already spent billions of dollars on the National Aerospace Plane, the X-33, X-34, X-37, X-38 and the Orbital Space Plane.
While the Military Space Plane was terminated on other grounds, its inherent capabilities would almost certainly fall afoul of such policies as well.
It is concerned that, should it ever get around to building its space plane, the definitions in the bill may, or may not, cover its vehicle.
Latest example of NASA bloated spending: The agency has already spent billions of dollars on the National Aerospace Plane, the X-33, X-34, X-37, X-38 and the Orbital Space Plane.
This appears to be the mindset of the Air Force regarding its experimental X-37B space plane, the billion-dollar robotic vehicle's orbital flight being extended beyond the 270 days it was initially designed for.
The Clementine II, Kinetic-Kill Anti-Satellite and Military Space Plane programs are the technological seed corn for such crucial capabilities as space-based missile defenses, neutralizing enemy satellites and having prompt, reliable and inexpensive access to and use of space.
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There is no need to build longer runways, although airports have had to spend heavily to make space for the plane's wingspan at departure and arrival gates which must also be modified to allow upper-deck passengers on and off.
Maybe he expects that sending a Turkish war plane into Syrian air space or forcing down a Syrian civilian plane en route from Russia will win him favor in the West and bring in NATO to intervene.
In some alternate plane of the space-time continuum dinosaurs with prehensile claws rule the Earth, and purple monkeys are their servants.
Finally, the reemergence of American primacy in space that the National Aerospace Plane represents will do much to restore popular and Congressional support for this vital area of national endeavor.
Without China's permission, the crippled U.S. plane then entered Chinese air space and landed at 9:33 a.m.
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He flew the X-15 rocket plane to the edge of space - 200, 000 feet up at 4, 000 mph.
All service costs are already allocated: The flight attendants have to be on the plane anyway and there is space in the luggage compartment.
At Beijing, Foster has put all the international flights in the rear three-sided building, which is similar to the front one and almost as grand, and you walk off the plane right into his vast space, a celebration of arrival awash with natural light.
It marks his first space venture since the partnership with Rutan and his colleagues to build the prize-winning SpaceShipOne rocket plane, which became the first privately developed craft to reach outer space in 2004.
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The piece of plane is wedged in an alley space between that building and 50 Murray St.
Islamabad says the plane was shot down after it violated Pakistani air space.
The plane will be built in California at the Mojave Air and Space Port in a new Stratolaunch hangar currently under construction.
If you typically reserve a seat in the back of the plane to get earlier boarding and more availability of overhead bin space, you might now want to reserve a window seat on United.
Second, and related to the first, the National Aerospace Plane can contribute greatly to reestablishing U.S. preeminence in space, for civilian as well as military purposes.
By contrast, a jet fighter plane travels at speeds of Mach 1 to Mach 2, and the Space Shuttle blasts into space at Mach 25.
It will offer private suites in first class, wider seats throughout the plane, and overhead rest areas for the crew to open up more space for the passengers.
It appears likely that an even greater percentage could be of use in Japanese efforts to develop a space shuttle, and perhaps even their counterpart to the U.S. National Aerospace Plane.
Before being chosen in 1962 as one of the "Group II" astronauts -- which included Apollo 13 commander James Lovell along with such legends as Frank Borman, Pete Conrad and John Young -- Armstrong was one of the elite pilots selected to fly the X-15 rocket plane up to five times the speed of sound and toward the edge of space.
The 787 is the first Boeing plane to use lithium ion batteries, which charge faster and can be molded to space-saving shapes compared to other airplane batteries.
The Air Force uses an array of aircraft, such as the U-2 spy plane, the high-altitude Global Hawk drone or satellites and systems that can gather intelligence from space.
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