I have wondered if the United States already has an Aerospace plane capable of traveling from New York to Tokyo in 2 hours. I have been hearing a lot
about research, development, and that sort. However, i'm not hearing about the in production spacecraft. Reagan spoke about it in his 1986 State of
the Union speech.
So, yes, this nation remains fully committed to America's space program. We're going forward with our shuttle flights. We're going forward to
build our space station. And we are going forward with research on a new Orient Express that could, by the end of the next decade, take off from
Dulles Airport, accelerate up to 25 times the speed of sound, attaining low Earth orbit or flying to Tokyo within 2 hours. And the same technology
transforming our lives can solve the greatest problem of the 20th century. A security shield can one day render nuclear weapons obsolete and free
mankind from the prison of nuclear terror. America met one historic challenge and went to the Moon. Now America must meet another: to make our
strategic defense real for all the citizens of planet Earth.

Speech in entirety below:
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More links to our new toy below:
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