Spacebus
Spacebus Spaceplane
Credit - Mark Lindroos
Class: Manned. Type: Spaceplane. Destination: Maximum Payload Orbit. Nation: UK. Manufacturer: Bristol Spaceplanes.

50 passenger orbiter portion of a two-stage vehicle proposed by David Ashford of Bristol Spaceplanes Ltd. in the 1980`s / 1990's.

The Bristol Spaceplanes Spacebus was a Two Stage To Orbit (TSTO) Manned Spaceplane, with an enormous airbreathing supersonic / hypersonic, delta winged first stage and a second stage powered by a liquid fuelled rocket engine.

Crew Size: 50. Associated Launch Vehicle: Spacebus.  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


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