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- noun Plural form of
spaceplane .
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Examples
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The spaceplanes are designed to remain in orbit for up to 270 days, but Air Force officials indicated the second ship might tally a longer stay in space.
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The nation that leads in spaceplanes will capture new markets opened by this industry, such as satellite servicing, tourism and medical breakthroughs from zero-gravity research.
Back to the Moon—For a Fraction of the Old Price Charles Miller 2012
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Seems like both modes of moon & space travel, capsule-on-rockets and reuseable spaceplanes, are in the national interest.
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None of this needs to be about SSTOs or TSTOs or even spaceplanes ... but about new green engines say, or in-space propulsion systems, or truly advanced designs like the VASIMR ...
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Sure, expendable rockets and capsules with parachuts look 'old', and a far cry from the futuristic 21'st century spaceplanes we all dreamed of, but they are realiable and do the job well.
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When the Chinese start deploying spaceplanes that can sink a US aircraft carrier anywhere in the world, I want the US to be able to do more than take pictures of it!
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"Sure, expendable rockets and capsules with parachuts look 'old', and a far cry from the futuristic 21'st century spaceplanes we all dreamed of, but they are realiable and do the job well."
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Arguments against the Shuttle aren't exactly arguments against spaceplanes in general.
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When the Chinese start deploying spaceplanes that can sink a US aircraft carrier anywhere in the world, I want the US to be able to do more than take pictures of it!
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-- All possible technical and other support should be extended to companies such as SpaceX in the USA, developing reusable economical orbital vehicles (note also Reaction Engines and Bristol Spaceplanes which are developing reusable spaceplanes in the UK);
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