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    Pretty cool rocket tech!

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1280514.html

    Vertical take off and landing with Earth gravity. Gives a little more leeway with landing on Mars.

    Good job, Masten!

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    Cool! And the name of the rocket is so appropriate for this site, too.
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    Back in 1993 NASA already had a working prototype called the Delta Clipper which was also a single stage to orbit reusable vertical take off and landing craft. Unfortunately, the program was cancelled due to politics and funding problems.




    Check out this video of it hovering almost motionless:




    It reminds me of spaceships from the old 50's scifi movies.

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    Reminds me of the Lunar Lander game
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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