Hypersonic stages would improve safety, NASA engineers say
Air-breathing hypersonic stages for future launch systems could offer significant benefits in safety and mission flexibility over today's rockets, according to hypersonics engineers at NASA. While the Air Force pursues hypersonic (faster than Mach 5) technology primarily for global strike through...
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