Timeline for If Space Shuttle flies "like a brick", why does it need the wings?
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| Nov 12, 2019 at 7:17 | history | edited | Federico | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 8, 2019 at 17:18 | comment | added | jamesqf | The Dream Chaser is a project of Sierra Nevada Corporation, not NASA. And if you look at the pictures, it does have quite obvious wings :-) | |
| Nov 8, 2019 at 16:53 | history | edited | Dave | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 8, 2019 at 12:27 | comment | added | Dave | @bogl did you click through the links at the bottom of the page to the other sections? There was some prior winged craft design experience. The project was also in part driven by Air Force requirements. It was a mix of a lot of reasons including engineering ones. | |
| Nov 8, 2019 at 12:01 | comment | added | bogl | Excellent link to NASA's explanation! But I don't see how you come to summarize it as socio-political and airplane mentality. The article is listing a number of hard engineering requirements that couldn't be met. | |
| Nov 8, 2019 at 11:52 | history | edited | Dave | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 8, 2019 at 11:52 | comment | added | Dave | @Federico I guess thats the wrong term to use, call it "another reason why" but i agree ill remove the first sentence. -- Edited--- | |
| Nov 8, 2019 at 11:49 | comment | added | Federico | I dispute your misnomer theory. the "fly like a brick" joke has always been a reference to its poor gliding ratio, to me. | |
| Nov 8, 2019 at 11:46 | history | edited | Dave | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 8, 2019 at 10:44 | history | answered | Dave | CC BY-SA 4.0 |