Airpork; the National Aero-Space plane is too fast to live, too hyped to die.

From: Washington Monthly | Date: July 1, 1991| Author: Gray, Peter | Copyright information

A week after the Challenger exploded in 1986, Ronald Reagan introduced the country to the hydrogen-powered National Aero-Space Plane (NASP), "a new Orient Express that could, by the end of the next decade, take off from Dulles Airport and accelerate up to 25 times the speed of sound, attaining low Earth orbit or flying to Tokyo within two hours." The same plane, or a close relative, would deliver bombs from Montana to Moscow in one hour; it would make regular freight deliveries int...

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