Awesome picture

[Marlin]

Satellites....

[SA Friday]

We had SR's at Mildenhall when I was stationed there. Man I hated those things. Fricken loud... Everytime they took off, the whole damn flightline shook. That's sucked sitting in a semi-stable cargo loader 15 feet in the air behind a C-5. The SR's leaked fuel like a seive on the ground too. The damn things fly so fast all the parts are put together to be tight and just cruise at Mach 1. The metal would become superheated and stretch at it's super-speeds. So, when it's on the ground, everything is all loosie-goosie including the fuel tanks. They did to amazing thing in the air though.

Before anyone had heard of 100 MPH tape, it was called Lapes tape. You can thank the AF for that advancement of duct tape.

[Ridge]

What is crazy in my mind is that this thing was designed in the late 50's and flown in the early 60's.

Something designed in the past 50 years that's better and faster?

Faster, not necessarily better.

Because the heat of them plowing through the atmosphere caused the metal to expand, it had huge gaps on the ground and it leaked fluids like a Land Rover...

[ColoWyo]

Better fuel efficiency, stealthier, and faster.

Bit I agree Marlin. Probably spaced based.