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    The Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar ("Dynamic Soarer") was a United States Air Force (USAF) program to develop a spaceplane that could be used for a variety of...
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    William J. Knight (category X-15 program)
    American X-15, an experimental spaceplane jointly operated by the U.S. Air Force and NASA. He was also selected for participation in the X-20 Dyna-Soar program...
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    foreshadowing future development of winged spacecraft such as the X-20 Dyna-Soar of the 1960s and the Space Shuttle of the 1970s. In the end, it was...
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  • engineer, U.S. Air Force officer, test pilot, and astronaut in the X-20 Dyna-Soar program. Wood was born on August 9, 1924, in Paragould, Arkansas. He...
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  • engineer, U.S. Air Force officer, test pilot, and astronaut in the X-20 Dyna-Soar program. Gordon was born in Valparaiso, Indiana, on December 23, 1925...
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  • Space Agency (ESA). It was superficially similar to the American Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar and the larger Space Shuttle. In January 1985, CNES proposed to proceed...
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    William H. Dana (category X-15 program)
    American X-15, an experimental spaceplane jointly operated by the Air Force and NASA. He was also selected for participation in the X-20 Dyna-Soar program...
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    ASSET program in the 1960s, which tested the heatshield design for the X-20 Dyna-Soar. On 16 March 1983: 207  a Royal Australian Air Force P-3 Orion reconnaissance...
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    NASA's HL-20 Personnel Launch System spaceplane concept, which in turn is descended from a series of test vehicles, including the X-20 Dyna-Soar, Northrop...
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    Spaceplane (section X-37)
    "Boeing's X-20 Dyna-Soar Was The Air Force's 'Spaceplane' That Never Flew". The Debrief. Retrieved 31 December 2023. "USAF X-20 "Dyna-Soar" Program Draftees...
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    which could reach anywhere on the planet within one to two hours. The X-20 Dyna-Soar in 1957 was the first publicly acknowledged program—although this would...
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    Neil Armstrong (category X-15 program)
    flew the North American X-15 seven times. He was also a participant in the U.S. Air Force's Man in Space Soonest and X-20 Dyna-Soar human spaceflight programs...
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  • engineer, U.S. Air Force officer, test pilot, and astronaut in the X-20 Dyna-Soar program. Rogers was born on April 12, 1928, in Lawrence, Kansas. He...
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  • orbital interceptor, contemporaneous with the U.S. Air Force's cancelled X-20 Dyna-Soar. MiG-15 MiG-21 MiG-23 MiG-25 MiG-29 MiG-29OVT MiG-31 MiG-35 "Northrop...
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    role, configuration, and era X-20 Dyna-Soar X-24 NASA X-38 Crew Return Vehicle Gordon, Yefim; Gunston, Bill (2000). Soviet X-Planes. Hinkley: Midland. pp...
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    low-cost astronaut training vehicle for the North American X-15 and projected Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar programs. Three aircraft were modified from existing Lockheed...
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  • undertaken in the late 1950s for a Rocket Bomber, absorbed into the abortive X-20 Dyna-Soar project Robomower, the robotic mulching lawnmower sold by Friendly Robotics...
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    1950s, including Robo, Hywards, Brass Bell, and ultimately the Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar. Earlier designs were generally bombers, while later models were aimed...
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    became NASA and adopted Project Mercury instead. By 1959, the Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar space-glider program was to become the USAF's preferred means for launching...
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    270 days (design) 908 days (demonstrated) Spaceflight portal Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar, the U.S. Air Force's original (1958–1963) spaceplane program, cancelled...
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  • X20 (redirect from X-20)
    type X-20 water tender TGOJ X20, a Swedish electric train X20 (album), a 2007 album by Suicide Commando X20 (New York City bus) Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar, a...
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    platform for the X-20 Dyna-Soar. This aircraft was retired in 1968. NASA 802 was used for simulation of abort procedures for the X-20, because it had a...
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  • a successor to the canceled X-20 Dyna-Soar project. It was announced to the public on the same day that the Dyna-Soar program was canceled, 10 December...
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    Launch System core stage Human Landing System Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar (canceled) Boeing X-37 Boeing X-40 ARGOS (satellite) Autonomous Space Transport Robotic...
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    Reaction Engines A2 (design study) HyperSoar (concept) Boeing X-51 Waverider X-20 Dyna-Soar (cancelled) Rockwell X-30 (cancelled) Avatar RLV (2001 Indian...
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    The X-planes are a series of experimental United States aircraft and rockets, used to test and evaluate new technologies and aerodynamic concepts. They...
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    Exploration Division) and Al Crews (selected as an astronaut for the X-20 Dyna-Soar).The first SAIL commander was James E. Westom of Rockwell International...
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  • of therapsid Dinosaurchestra, a 2006 album by Neil Cicierega Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar, a US Air Force program to develop a spaceplane Dino (disambiguation)...
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    reconnaissance satellites, and was a successor to the canceled Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar military reconnaissance space plane. Plans for the MOL evolved into...
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  • Force, with the ultimate aim of providing the launch services for the X-20 Dyna Soar crewed spaceplane. Its competition was an upgraded version of the Titan...
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