There is no need to launch a rocket from the ground . You use an aircraft like this to take the capsule to 40,000 feet or so and release it heading due east and use a small rocket to take it the rest of the way into orbit . You don't need the bottom stage of the rocket .
There used to be a humanoid robot on the International Space Station . Why did it have legs ? Legs are not needed or even desirable in weightlessness .
@airmainengineer The A-380 is the equivalent of little boys at a urinal having a pissing contest . All they accomplish is to have more unalive people when one of these fall down , go boom .
@its_The_Dr 357 revolver aimed at the animals center of mass , fire 5 bullets and save the last in case it lives . If so final bullet goes in it's throat .