/sci/ - Science & Math

Why don't they just put stainless steel wings on the spacecraft so they don't need to use fuel or expensive and heavy heat shield panels to facilitate return?

Just put a couple of foldable wings on the thing and have it coast down from orbit, wings means a lot of area to dissipate heat on and stainless steel means that you can easily heat them up to like 400C without any issues which results in great heat dissipation ability.

>>10335081
>implying fast low drag/low lift planes are safe and easy to land
Or even take off, as the Concord shows.