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Kankoh-Maru SSTO spaceship video (link)
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Here (see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG-JL_GoUmI ) is a computer-generated video of the launch, flight, re-entry, and landing of the Japanese Kankoh-Maru SSTO--Single-Stage-To-Orbit--space tourism spaceship (its name roughly transliterates as "S.S. [space] Tourism"). The video's creator has also done videos of numerous old and new reusable launch vehicle designs, including SERV (Chrysler's SSTO Space Shuttle design of the early 1970s) and the various winged (with reusable winged booster) Shuttle designs.
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Nice animation. If we only had energetic enough fuel for such ventures...
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In his book "Halfway to Anywhere," G. Harry Stine even listed several historic and existing rocket stages that could--although with pretty small payloads (but enough to prove the principle)--achieve orbit all by themselves. Also, a Shuttle External Tank with six SSMEs would, as Gary Hudson found, lift substantial payloads into orbit as an expendable SSTO (RS-68As would be cheaper alternatives to SSMEs [RS-25s], for such an expendable SSTO launch vehicle).
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