EADS Astrium Spaceplane

[hereosinerror]

@depaulsto EADS Astrium would be a company.

[PiloteBoeing747]

i look this !!

[qup5]

Not very impressive.

Suborbital is a lot easier than orbital. I could go suborbital in a weather balloon, you need a big fucking rocket to go orbital.

[georgitushev]

Any body heard the name Marc Newson ?.. this person is the designer . Google him and OMG! He never build anything what fly..and even his website is not working.

Nothing near Burt Rutan

[lupeooo]

He designed only the cabin

[georgitushev]

Humm, nice chairs  ;-P

[Membrane556]

The use of a strait wing on a sub orbital vehicle is very unusual but not unheard of.

The Max Faget low cross range shuttle an orbital vehicle concept also used a strait wing but reentered at such a high angle to wing was in stall.

[FUTUREFIGHTER]

LOL--first of all when it comes to Space EADS sucks----This Fucking Plane wont even come close to be called Space plane--Second do you know why Soviet Abondoned the Buran program cuz its not worth very dengerous---on reentry

[djquinn3]

um no! the buran was canceled because the soviet union had collapsed and the russian government that followed had no money to spare. also on the one flight it made, the buran actually landed in fairly strong lateral winds with only a three metre difference from it's intended target. and why do EADS "suck at space"?

[Membrane556]

Buran was canceled for one reason and just one reason the USSR broke up and Russia couldn't afford it at the time.

BTW Kliper the vehicle to follow on Soyuz is a space plane in it's LEO configuration.

Lastly EADS doesn't suck last I checked their space endeavors such as Ariane 5 and the ATV have been largely successful.

[DubeyPotter]

fasinating

[DubeyPotter]

it will replace spaceshuttles

[DubeyPotter]

it can fly Mach 3

[toolslave]

$200,000 per trip? Better start saving now 'cause it definitely looks worth it.

[dead368]

Wow..

[Turbo447]

Ahhhhhh very nice!