Comments on: Houston yesterday signed a letter of intent with Sierra Nevada to provide the company a home at that city’s proposed spaceport. https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/houston-yesterday-signed-a-letter-of-intent-with-sierra-nevada-to-provide-the-company-a-home-at-that-citys-proposed-spaceport/ Mon, 21 Apr 2014 16:07:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Kelly Starks https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/houston-yesterday-signed-a-letter-of-intent-with-sierra-nevada-to-provide-the-company-a-home-at-that-citys-proposed-spaceport/#comment-164868 Mon, 21 Apr 2014 16:07:24 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=28129#comment-164868 In reply to Tom Billings.

Smoke. Gliders, and any type of experimental aircraft, have been certified…though given these ships aren’t going to be well tested, flying them over the burbs would be politically very iffy.

]]> By: Kelly Starks https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/houston-yesterday-signed-a-letter-of-intent-with-sierra-nevada-to-provide-the-company-a-home-at-that-citys-proposed-spaceport/#comment-163798 Mon, 14 Apr 2014 19:41:46 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=28129#comment-163798 What exactly is Dream Chaser going to do in Houston? It can’t launch from there, and theres no particular reason to land it there and then fly it to KSC or wherever else the Atlas-V launches from?

]]> By: Tom Billings https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/houston-yesterday-signed-a-letter-of-intent-with-sierra-nevada-to-provide-the-company-a-home-at-that-citys-proposed-spaceport/#comment-163570 Sat, 12 Apr 2014 23:22:31 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=28129#comment-163570 On LinkedIn’s space groups we have someone called Thomas Stagliano, who keeps saying that winged spaceships cannot fly the last bit of their return over populated areas, because they are not and cannot be type certificated, so that places like Kennedy Space Center and the Houston site cannot be used by DreamChaser. He also says he thinks that Dragon Rider cannot land on its rockets on land, for the same reason, anywhere East of the Westcoast. He does note that NASA had their own government agency waiver for this with the Shuttle.

Anybody have an idea whether this is smoke or fire?

]]> By: Steve C https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/houston-yesterday-signed-a-letter-of-intent-with-sierra-nevada-to-provide-the-company-a-home-at-that-citys-proposed-spaceport/#comment-163462 Sat, 12 Apr 2014 00:11:41 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=28129#comment-163462 Colorado? So its OK to dump the flubs, stages and other trash on flyover country?. Hey, its just a bunch of Red Staters but they may drop a rocket on a wind farm.

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