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You want these things incorporated in every cargo and human rated rocket going up there, and fortunately they can be - it's called the nosecone aeroshield, and every rocket payload has one.

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A picture of the missile shows a big nosecone which is typical for a satellite launcher and atypical for a ballistic missile.

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I'd also want a backup to THAT system, for instance a simple reentry cargo return and recovery vehicle constructed out of the nosecone aeroshield, a simple attitude control system that could double as retro devices, parachutes and airbags for floatation and an integrated lifeboat capable of drifting for weeks on the open ocean before recovery.

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You talk as if all that money is stuffed in a nosecone and blasted off into space or converted into greenhouse gases; where do you think it gets spent and by whom? former CA resident

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I would take a non-flight worthy cryogenic core stage, either a line reject or unusable extra, such as a Delta IV medium core, and instrument the nosecone aeroshield with accelerometers and temperature sensors, equip it with a minimal blast shield and basic parachute recovery system, tank it and and then ignite a small cryogenic explosion at the base, simulating a catastrophic engine failure.

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On Friday, both spacecraft were encapsulated inside the Atlas V payload fairing, the sleek nosecone of the launch vehicle.

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Therefore, most of your design attributes can be doubled up, attitude control, OMS, nosecone aeroshield going up, cargo and rescue going down, and they can be stacked like onions, the rescue vehicle encapsulating the lifeboat capsule, etc.

How Best to Access the ISS-and LEO? - NASA Watch 2009

How did a commercial jet manage to crash through about 9′ of hardened concrete without a hardedned nosecone?

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It's a one way trip, therefore your attitude control and reentry vectors can be and are unidirectional, out the back of the nosecone, and it's basically a trip of only several hours, something a space suited astronaut can get in and bail out when things can and do go wrong, which greatly simplifies the design of these things.

How Best to Access the ISS-and LEO? - NASA Watch 2009

The only thing that will alter the mentality inside the beltway comes in the nosecone of a nuclear missile.

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