@Punished_Jess VentureStar would've been a great spacecraft while it wouldn't have been THE SSTO, it would've been a functional vehicle that proved their feasibility and made people more likely to invest in further SSTO development

@sovereignofkent I feel like it would've been the SSTO for a long time. I really do believe its reuse rate would've gone crazy, especially with what NASA wanted to do with it.

@Punished_Jess Now do it stock without the mod that's like 3 parts, I'll wait 🥱

@Breo28887313 What?

@Punished_Jess Me too

@Punished_Jess me likey

@Punished_Jess @torybruno

@Punished_Jess I think it would have worked if they stuck with it or at a the very least could have been turned into a TSTO.

@Punished_Jess i love how the aerospike engines align with the tapered end 😩

@Punished_Jess Was a crewed variant an idea of the project ?

@Punished_Jess Venturestar is awesome and it’s a shame how damn close it got to flying but waaa we can’t like it because it had silly tanks and was worse than Rockwell’s! 😭😭😭

@Punished_Jess One mistake and #NASA toss out the baby, bathwater and areospike engine. ALL tossed out for our future with this...

@Punished_Jess It pretty

@Punished_Jess A missed opportunity. I wonder where the almost finished flight model is right now

@Punished_Jess I would turn aerospike for her…

@Punished_Jess Never forget what they took from us

@Punished_Jess I will always love the idea of anything with an aerospike.

@Punished_Jess Yipeeee