The HL-42 was a proposed scaled-up version of the HL-20 re-usable crewed spaceplane design, which had been developed from 1983 to 1991 at NASA's Langley...

BOR-4 NASA X-38 Dream Chaser Prometheus Space Shuttle Spaceplane HL-42 (spacecraft) Hodges, Jim (Fall 2011). "The Dream Chaser: Back to the Future"....

appeared several times since then in proposed NASA spacecraft. When the Langley Research Center revealed its HL-20 design for an emergency crew return vehicle...

the HL-10 as a prop of the story. Martin X-23 PRIME BOR-4 Kliper HL-20 Personnel Launch System Dream Chaser (spacecraft) Space Rider (spacecraft) Prometheus...

atmosphere and maneuver like a spacecraft in outer space. To do so, spaceplanes must incorporate features of both aircraft and spacecraft. Orbital spaceplanes tend...

the primary contractor for Hermes, the name that had been given to the spacecraft. French aircraft manufacturer Dassault-Breguet was awarded responsibility...

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reusable experimental spacecraft (Chinese: 可重复使用试验航天器; pinyin: Kěchóngfùshǐyòng shìyàn hángtiānqì; lit. 'Reusable Experimental Spacecraft') is a Chinese reusable...

there was growing international interest in the development of reusable spacecraft; at the time, only the superpowers of the era, the Soviet Union and the...

until it reached an apogee of approximately 200,000 feet (61 km). The spacecraft would have experienced a little over four minutes of weightlessness before...

before the US Space Shuttle in 1972, Chelomey developed two concepts for a spacecraft that would launch vertically and land horizontally. The MP-1 Kosmoplan[citation...

aspects of both aeroplanes and spacecraft. Most concepts were only capable of sub-orbital spaceflight. Lists of spacecraft List of space launch system designs...

Agency (DARPA) selected Boeing for Phase 2/3 to build and test an XS-1 spacecraft (now called the Experimental Spaceplane program). At the time, test flights...

Oblast, Russia HL-20 Personnel Launch System Dream Chaser Grayzeck, Edwin.J. "NASA - National Space Science Data Center - Spacecraft - Details: Cosmos...

on the NASA HL-20 Personnel Launch System vehicle.[needs update] Excalibur Almaz had plans in 2007 to launch a modernized TKS Spacecraft (for Almaz space...

2008, p. 154. Ayres, Thomas R. (1984). "Capella HL". Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun: Capella HL. Lecture Notes in Physics. Vol. 193. p. 202. Bibcode:1984LNP...

The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and...

separate from the spacecraft just before atmospheric reentry. Upon atmospheric entry, the lifting body shape will decelerate the spacecraft to subsonic speed...

also known as the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), is a reusable robotic spacecraft. It is boosted into space by a launch vehicle, then re-enters Earth's...

their first flight are shown with a mint-colored   background. Dragon spacecraft have a three-digit serial number. A decimal point followed by a number...

sub-orbital spacecraft. It was formed in 1996 specifically to be a contender for the Ansari X Prize for the first non-governmental reusable crewed spacecraft. The...

principle of the lifting body, foreshadowing future development of winged spacecraft such as the X-20 Dyna-Soar of the 1960s and the Space Shuttle of the 1970s...

interest in the development of reusable launch platforms and reusable spacecraft, particularly in respect to spaceplanes, perhaps the most high-profile...

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the sides of the fuselage just above and ahead of the wings. Another spacecraft to use the Spiral design was the БОР (Russian: Беспилотный Орбитальный...

shoulder injury after parachuting from the stricken spacecraft. The second SpaceShipTwo spacecraft, VSS Unity, was unveiled on 19 February 2016. The vehicle...

part of a United States project to create a single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) spacecraft and passenger spaceliner. Started in 1986, it was cancelled in the early...

vehicles for ground testing and development for the successor Delta-class spacecraft. So in the end, no SpaceShip III vehicles were completed or flown (not...

Project 921-3 is a crewed spacecraft sub-system of Project 921. The term 921-3 is often used for the Chinese spaceplane program.[not verified in body]...

of outer space and returning with valuable data used in aircraft and spacecraft design. The X-15's highest speed, 4,520 miles per hour (7,274 km/h; 2...