This Homemade Spacegun Shoots Satellites

Getting materials and people into orbit has always been an expensive proposition, one that’s even costlier now that the Shuttle program has been retired. But one enterprising American inventor thinks he’s got a solution: Space Cannons.

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America’s First Supersonic Interceptor Was a Flying Bottle Rocket

America's First Supersonic Interceptor Was a Flying Bottle Rocket

When the Soviet Tupolev Tu-4 bomber made its debut in 1949, it was more than a big deal. This reverse-engineered Boeing B-29 Superfortress gave the Russians intercontinental strategic strike capabilities that the existing US fleet of F-61 Black Widows and F-82 Twin Mustangs simply couldn’t compete with. The American response: Build a better interceptor. Enter the F-94 Starfire.

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