Dyna-Soar could now be built commercially

The alloys and coatings for Dyna-Soar which were so exotic when developed/selected forty years ago are now standard industrial products.

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Somebody once told me that Dyna-Soar would have never worked as intended.
I'd like more details on why the project was cancelled in the first place.

Correct. Once you've reentered and bombed the Russians you've got a slight problem: How the heck are you going to get back home?



ICBMs and spy sats as I recall.

I think it's ability to skip on the fringes of the atmosphere was placed in question.

Perhaps, but that was a mere technical problem. The real problem was that it didn't have a point anymore.

can you elaborate on that point?

ICBM's got rid of the need for the X-20 as a bomber, and spy sats got rid of the need for it as a recon platform. No function left to it.

it was my impression that dynasoar arrived after ICBMs like the Titan IV
After all, it was to be carried atop a Titan rocket.

The Titan III was specifically developed as the Dyna-Soar booster and continued after Dyna-Soar because other uses were found for it.

Greenmonster, you could well be right here. Starchaser's members magazine carried an article expressing their hopes of developing a spaceplane based on Dyna-soar. I find the whole idea fascinating as a possible high-speed transport. It might just remove the bitterness I feel towards the French for ruining Concorde.

Do a search for Buran vs. Dyna-Soar, for a discussion I had on the subject.

On that note, do a search for +lack +source +ego for a critique on lazy megalomaniacs. Seriously, though, if you're going to try and quote yourself, and if you remember what you said, then at least include a link, if not a full synopsis.

I don't advocate building anything like the Dynasoar.The next reusable spaceplane should be a lifting body. WIngs in space are like ...well I can only think of obscene comparisons so let's leave it to that.

But why do you even need a lifting body? This can force the need for a larger, heavier reentry shield, and it also requires tricky internal tank designs, etc.. witness the X-33 fiasco.

www.starshipmodeler.net

BTW tha father of the lifting body, Dale Reed, passed away.