Comments on: Armadillo and RRL joint venture http://www.newspacejournal.com/2008/10/24/armadillo-and-rrl-joint-venture/ Tracking the entrepreneurial space industry Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:33:32 +0800 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Space Adventures returns to suborbital spaceflight « NewSpace Journal http://www.newspacejournal.com/2008/10/24/armadillo-and-rrl-joint-venture/comment-page-1/#comment-437224 Fri, 28 May 2010 12:43:29 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/?p=722#comment-437224 […] tanks with a central engine to the “fishbowl” concept Armadillo showed off in 2008 for the short-lived suborbital joint venture between Armadillo and the Rocket Racing League. Carmack also offered no timetable for the beginning of tourist flights, although he did note the […]

]]> By: Personal Spaceflight » Carmack: deal with Rocket Racing fell through http://www.newspacejournal.com/2008/10/24/armadillo-and-rrl-joint-venture/comment-page-1/#comment-388430 Sat, 04 Apr 2009 21:13:05 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/?p=722#comment-388430 […] the 2008 Lunar Lander Challenge last October, Rocket Racing and Armadillo Aerospace announced a joint venture to develop vertical takeoff, vertical landing vehicles for suborbital space tourism. However, […]

]]> By: val stavrev http://www.newspacejournal.com/2008/10/24/armadillo-and-rrl-joint-venture/comment-page-1/#comment-330284 Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:16:37 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/?p=722#comment-330284 In number of comments on this news was expressed doubt about feasibility of such “transparent space bubble”.
Hire is something more about transparent habituated space modules:
http://www.sae.org/technical/papers/2008-01-2025

The transparent bubble for space flight is feasible but Armadillo visualization looks rather naïve.
They are too far from human rated vertical flight I thing.

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