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Glaucus

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Woot Reaction Engine Limited have confirmed that all tests have been successful and exactly as predicted. All tests where independently audited by ESA who have agreed that there is now no technological reason why skylon wouldn't work. They now need £250m for the next stage a 3-1/2year project to build a slight LH smaller version of saber to prove thrust to weight ratio.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20510112
 

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A trip down memory lane. Forty years ago:

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Apollo 17 Launch

The huge, 363-feet tall Apollo 17 (Spacecraft 114/Lunar Module 12/Saturn 512) space vehicle is launched from Pad A., Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Florida, at 12:33 a.m. (EST), Dec. 7, 1972.

Apollo 17, the final lunar landing mission in NASA's Apollo program, was the first nighttime liftoff of the Saturn V launch vehicle. Aboard the Apollo 17 spacecraft were astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, commander; astronaut Ronald E. Evans, command module pilot; and scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt, lunar module pilot. Flame from the five F-1 engines of the Apollo/Saturn first (S-1C) stage illuminates the nighttime scene. A two-hour and 40-minute hold delayed the Apollo 17 launching.

Photo credit: NASA
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How time flies! :)
 
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