Now that I see the video, I wish they would have spent some of the grant money on a better system for filming the re-entry, or more likely show us the video from the better system
YukonJack
You do know that they only pax that could survive a flight at Mach 20 are robots, right? So these 12 minute flights from N. Y. to L.A. would be for cargo?
Slowburn
Re nostarme
People once questioned weather you could survive 40 MPH. Once you make the the craft reliably survives the experience making it carry people is easy, assuming that it is not pulling too many Gs.
Paul Anthony
That looked so very real! :)
vblancer
As far as surviving Mach 20 US astronauts and Russian cosmonauts have been surviving Mach 20 or there abouts since the 1960s. Speed does not kill....it is the sudden stop.
I thinknostarme is confusing G force with Mach numbers. Very different things.
Bill Bennett
one would think that DARPA would be able to provide video better than 720p,,,sigh
Gregg Eshelman
Millions of dollars in tax money spent on this stuff (still one of the tiniest parts of the budget, including all of NASA) and they can\'t spring for decent air and ground based video tracking equipment? They could\'ve borrowed all the gear NASA bought for monitoring Shuttle launches after the Columbia disaster.
l1nuxl1nux
Re: Jay Finke Actually, it looked pretty authentic to me. What struck you as a forged video? Do you watch a lot of experimental hyper-sonic test footage on a daily basis?
Robert Snyder
What makes you think DARPA doesn't have really good video of this flight?