The Sanger Concept

On 08/06/06, sraj wrote:
> The Sanger Concept developed by the Germans, where a large reusable
> sub-orbital shuttle carries a smaller shuttle to a higher altitude, seemed
> to be quite elegant. Why does this not figure in future space carrier plans?

It did. That design is basically the shuttle (or one of the earlier
designs for the shuttle).

> Selvaraj

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