Aerospace transportation systems of the future

E. Кrause, А.М. Kharitonov

A powerful burst - and the rocket starts vertically from the launch pad and disappears high in the air… This is the picture we have been used to since the 1960s, which may soon become obsolete. Expendable space systems and shuttles will soon be replaced by a new generation of vehicles: aerospace planes, which will be capable of horizontal takeoff and landing, like usual airliners