Flight Architecture
The inflatable architecture incorporates three separate components to achieve orbit. This is primarily due to the different constraints on airships in the lower atmosphere versus the constraints on airships in the upper atmosphere. The full course of the process involves the Ascender, the Dark Sky Station, and the Orbital Ascender.
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Famous quotes containing the words flight and/or architecture:
“It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we may yet find at galaxy’s edge. But in the process, we have lost the human element; not to mention the high hope of those quaint days when flight would create “one world.” Instead of one world, we have “star wars,” and a future in which dumb dented human toys will drift mindlessly about the cosmos long after our small planet’s dead.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)
“It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)