Comments on: Airbus plans to do the first drop test a prototype of its commercial space plane sometime in May. https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/airbus-plans-to-do-the-first-drop-test-a-prototype-of-its-commercial-space-plane-sometime-in-may/ Wed, 05 Mar 2014 16:12:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Matt in AZ https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/airbus-plans-to-do-the-first-drop-test-a-prototype-of-its-commercial-space-plane-sometime-in-may/#comment-158139 Wed, 05 Mar 2014 16:12:57 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=27638#comment-158139 Should an unpowered 1/4-scale model really be called a prototype?

]]> By: Robert Clark https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/airbus-plans-to-do-the-first-drop-test-a-prototype-of-its-commercial-space-plane-sometime-in-may/#comment-158115 Wed, 05 Mar 2014 13:42:12 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=27638#comment-158115 Good news for commercial space. Only that $1.7 billion development cost could be vastly cut by simply adapting already existing rocket stages.

Bob Clark

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