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[Xytan]

Check out this Japanese design for a single stage to orbit spacecraft!

http://www.spacefuture.com/archive/pilot_procedures_for_kankoh_maru_operations.shtml

http://www.spacefuture.com/archive/kankoh_maru_flight_manual.shtml

The spacecraft can carry 50 passengers into Low Earth Orbit.

[HardGay]

Check out this Japanese design for a single stage to orbit spacecraft!

http://www.spacefuture.com/archive/pilot_procedures_for_kankoh_maru_operations.shtml

http://www.spacefuture.com/archive/kankoh_maru_flight_manual.shtml

The spacecraft can carry 50 passengers into Low Earth Orbit.

Why do you try to pass off a TENGA egg diagram as a spacecraft??? But i can see the excitment in it    (i'm kidding) 

I'ts pretty awesome. hopefully the technology advances will be fast enough that we all can afford to do some space travelling in the near future..

[muddbutt]

All this new technology is amazing! So many private companies are getting into the space race its crazy. Its my plan to go into orbit sometime before I leave this world

[Xytan]

It's especially exciting what Space Exploration Technologies is doing. They're the first private company to bring a spacecraft back from orbit, and now they just announced their Falcon Heavy launch vehicle.

http://www.spacex.com/falcon_heavy.php

[Xytan]

Here's another Japanese made rocket, the H-IIA. This one is actually real, unlike the SSTO that is just a hypothetical study.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHErfpt85v4