Letters From Our Readers (Aug. 31, 2020)

Credit: NASA
SUBORBITAL SUSTAINMENT Irene Klotz’s column, “The Launchpad,” is a favorite of mine. But I must disagree on one point in her recent column on suborbital spaceflight’s hiatus beginning with the second Mercury launch ( July 13-26, p. 16) . Well after the Mercury program, the X-15 was operating in near...

Letters From Our Readers (Aug. 31, 2020) is available to both Aviation Week & Space Technology and AWIN subscribers.

Subscribe now to read this content, plus receive critical analysis into emerging trends, technological advancements, operational best practices and continuous updates to policy, requirements and budgets.

Already a subscriber to AW&ST or AWIN? Log in with your existing email and password.