so what's really the deal with this thing?

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>>19560463
You came to the right place anon. It just so happens everyone here is an aerospace engineer and a NASA employee so it shohwait no none of that is true its a fucking spaceship.

>>19560463
Aliums

>>19560474
televised landing on white house lawn or it didn't happen

>>19560468
Just from this photo, it runs on hydrazine, it carries a payload in it's midsection.
It's been through several burns. Some panels have been replaced, as well as tiles.
It's everything the shuttle program wished it could be.

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>>19560485
Case closed ladies and gentleman.

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>>19560485
>It's everything the shuttle program wished it could be.

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>>19560485
I love how NASA keeps tripping over its own dick trying to build a new manned launch vehicle and the Air Force just has this thing that works perfectly and which they could almost certainly scale up if they wanted. But they don't, and they also won't share.

>>19560526
And they have those cute little Hilfiger bubble suits, too.

>>19560526
The military has way more money.

>>19560526
it's likely a lot easier when you don't need to have anything like life support systems

It's NASAs new Shuffle program. It's a lot smaller and lethargic than the shuttle program.

>>19560545
So much this.

>>19560526
lewk out bois we got ourselves a space man over here

I keep waiting to see them unload Peter Dinklage from that thing.

>>19560463
Probably carrying surveillance equipment and potentially anti-satellite armaments at most, kind of a small craft to do much beyond its designated mission of long term systems testing and autonomous bs; could be servicing/resupplying US satellites, but unlikely given the duration of its flight time.

>>19561078
They're loading it up to introduce Thor's Hammer to North Korea.
http://taskandpurpose.com/kinetic-bombardment-kep-weaponry/