Designers move VentureStar payload outside for 'packaging efficiency'
Lockheed Martin Skunk Works engineers struggling to build a commercial reusable launch vehicle with a takeoff weight that is 90% fuel have moved the payload for the proposed VentureStar RLV outside the fuselage for "internal packaging efficiency," the head of the VentureStar unit told Congress...
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