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>>14581569
Did some research and I guess here’s some hopium. The fastest shuttle turnaround in our timeline was 8 weeks. In an alternate world, a fleet of 8-10 shuttles with that same turnaround time would be capable of weekly flights.
I’m thinking an alternate shuttle that could do this would be a mix of Saturn-Shuttle and a mix of Energia II.
Say you keep the winged Saturn V first stage. But the S-II upper stage is given wings, TPS, and a bigsss cargo bay. You now have a fully reusable TSTO vehicle thst doesn’t have the same tile dangers of a side mount vehicle like even the dolphin sex shuttle.
It’s also very Saturn derived which should at least make it not cost much more than our timeline’s shuttle. Idk.

Pic related on the right, but slightly smaller.