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Originally Posted by Seahawk
Without the humans, it can be small and carry a bunch. Life support systems, human design, have been the bane of manned space flight.
A lifting body (of which I am familiar) would be hard to first package, and then re-entry.
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As I understand it a lifting body is much more compact, which is why the International Space Station has one.
Some how I confused this project with the X-33 or maybe even another project. I'm sort of blindsided by this, still absorbing it.
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