What will be the spaceships of the future? |
In the distant 70-ies of the engineers wanted to create spaceships of the future, which would be to transport cargo and people into orbit, and then safely return to Earth and re be in the ranks. Partly they succeeded.
In the 90-ies of the NASA space Agency led the development of the spacecraft, which would function like an airplane. The Agency pursued the goal of creating a spacecraft reusable, which would be efficient and reliable, and was also profitable from an economic point of view – unlike the shuttles.
The composition of this device includes 4 components, only one of which was reusable, namely the winged Orbiter. Huge external fuel tank was disconnected from the structure, and when the fuel was completely expended, and it happened after 8 minutes of flight, he simply burned in the atmosphere. The flanking two booster also disconnected after 2 minutes of flight time. After they landed in the ocean and walked on further recovery. A little later the rockets after dismantling was already filled with solid fuel. But all these procedures were very costly because they required special equipment, so it was easier to buy a disposable carrier rockets to launch the space Shuttle.