5 amazing spacecraft which never launched

[ToxicBunny]

so all the other weird and wacky ways are just a waste of money and time?
ok, now we have established that,

dont you think that other options like maglev rail and spacecraft carrying airplanes and ballons carrying rockets are another alternative?
maybe with a bit or reworking? and something more realistic and cheaper?

so that the most wasteful and least efficient way to get into space is still the best, so appollo 11 with its saturn 5 is still the best.
and in all the time so far, nothing better has come around?

Im just confused, its like saying when the first balloons were launched
by these guys:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgolfier_brothers

that this was the best and only way, and NOTHING in the field of aviation is worth trying further.

I just find it hard to believe that ANYTHING we try in the field of getting into space is worthless.
besides the expensive rockets and its waste.

No we haven't...

Some of them have been investigated and found to be retarded, others are possibly being developed.

Maglev rail has issues, and at best can be a cargo delivery system (we've discussed this with you already)
Planes have a myriad of problems and are not really with the effort
Balloons carrying rockets, how will you control the balloon? It adds more complications to the plane concept.

And yes, currently the best way to get to space is a rocket.... it won't necessarily always be that way, but for the foreseeable future it will be that way

And no ffs, nobody is saying we should stop investigating, but the shyte you post in terms of "ideas" are not new or innovative, they been looked at and MOST of them have been written off as being stupid or not worth the effort.

 

[Compton_effect]

never mentioned them, at least by name, but ok,

do you agree with that then? best hope for all of humanity to get into space is basically what spacex has been doing so far?

so all the crazy and wacky ideas are all pointless, even though they attack the problem with a hammer and not with science.

They are approaching the problem like engineers, not rocket scientists. And it seems to be working.
Blue Origin is doing the same, just slower and more careful.

SpaceX can surge launch a number of their flights in a short period, and the time between the surges are becoming less and less. Its a hammer, yes. But they are using it to put a nail in.

 

[Swa]

so you think that ANY idea that people come up with, will be pointless, as its too complex and too prone to disasters?
if people dont try these wacky ideas with airplanes launching spacecraft, or maglev rails accelerating objects into orbit.

how will the Right solution ever be discovered? how will somebody eventually stumble onto the correct solution?

one can think back to the beginning of human flight, with people trying to throw themselves off cliffs
and gliders and balloons.

all that "nonsense" eventually let the right solution being discovered, plenty of others could have discovered it, but 2 bike mechanics
nobody had ever heard of discovered the solution.

dont you think that if enough people try the crazy ideas like space airplanes and maglev rails, eventually somebody would discover the real solution
that Humanity as a whole needs to escape the prison that is earth.

We aren't talking things that bike mechanics can develop any more. What's become apparent is that we've hit the limit of physics unless we go nuclear like they did with subs. We would have hit it during WW2 already if it wasn't for V-rockets. We need to start looking at manipulating space itself.