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Scaled building airframe for manned 200,000 foot airbreather

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Scaled building airframe for manned 200,000 foot airbreather 
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Post Scaled building airframe for manned 200,000 foot airbreather   Posted on: Wed May 19, 2004 7:56 pm
http://www.califcity.com/darpa.html

DARPA RASCAL turbojet vehicle
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Post    Posted on: Thu May 20, 2004 1:47 am
wow interesting!
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... a 110-lb. payload into a 675 nautical mile Sun-synchronous orbit, according to the magazine. The RASCAL system may also be able to launch 2,000-lb. military payloads to 2,500 nautical miles.

sounds pretty powerful, how would this fit something like the moon/mars initiative?
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Post    Posted on: Thu May 20, 2004 9:51 am
Very cool, but totally different leauge to PlanBush. More of a point to point fast transit thing.

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