{"id":192341,"date":"2009-04-10T05:38:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T10:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/10\/air-force-looking-at-space-plane-satellite-launcher\/"},"modified":"2009-04-10T05:38:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T10:38:00","slug":"air-force-looking-at-space-plane-satellite-launcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/10\/air-force-looking-at-space-plane-satellite-launcher\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Looking at Space Plane Satellite Launcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img216.imageshack.us\/img216\/3579\/aw040620091449l3197309.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"375\" \/>The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?fromChannel=awst&amp;pubKey=awst&amp;channel=awst&amp;issueDate=2009-04-06&amp;story=xml\/awst_xml\/2009\/04\/06\/AW_04_06_2009_p28-130527.xml&amp;headline=Air+Force+Formulates+X-plane+Space+Launcher+Plan\">looking at a winged recoverable booster<\/a> (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">paid subscription required<\/span>) for a rapid response satellite launcher.<\/p>\n<p>Considering the history here, the ruinously expensive and sometimes lethal space shuttle, I&#8217;m dubious.<\/p>\n<p>Reusable does not seem to equal cheaper, or more reliable in space boosters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is looking at a winged recoverable booster (paid subscription required) for a rapid response satellite launcher. Considering the history here, the ruinously expensive and sometimes lethal space shuttle, I&#8217;m dubious. Reusable does not seem to equal cheaper, or more reliable in space boosters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1006,1037,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-space","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}