As the Space Shuttle approaches retirement, the question becomes how will the US maintain a presence in space and aboard the ISS? What will the Augustine commission propose to the president as NASA's next step in spaceflight? Smaller, faster, cheaper- perhaps the answer will be lifting bodies and... ants. See the development of the Screaming Death Wedge lifting body here is part 1.
As the space shuttle prepares for retirement, can the Screaming Death Wedge, or SDW lifting body and the brave ants who fly it be America's answer to the gap in spaceflight? Here in Part 2 of The Slight Stuff we ride along with the antstronauts and see the explosions up close.
