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The X-38 Crew Return Vehicle (CRV) was a prototype for a wingless lifting body reentry vehicle that was to be used as a Crew Return Vehicle for the International Space Station (ISS). The X-38 was developed to the point of a drop test vehicle before its development was cancelled in 2002 due to budget cuts. The crew size for the ISS depends upon the crew return capability: the crew is limited to... Read enhanced Wikipedia article
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    NASA X-38

    The X-38 Crew Return Vehicle (CRV) was a prototype for a wingless lifting body reentry vehicle that was to be used as a Crew Return Vehicle for the International Space Station (ISS).
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    Crew Return Vehicle

    The ESA instead elected to join NASA's X-38 CRV program in May 1996, after that program finished its Phase A study.
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    Lifting body

    Nonetheless, the lifting body concept has been implemented in a number of other aerospace programs, the previously mentioned NASA X-38, Lockheed Martin X-33, BAC's Multi Unit Space Transport And Recovery Device, Europe's EADS Phoenix and the joint Russian-European Kliper spacecraft.
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    List of experimental aircraft

    NASA X-38 Crew return vehicle for International Space Station (cancelled after tests)
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    Scaled Composites

    Model 276 NASA X-38: fuselage of drop test vehicle (1998)
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    X-38 Ship -2 Landing on Lakebed EC99-45080-101-EDIT1

    Parafoil

    The NASA X-38 prototype makes a gentle lakebed landing at the end of a July 1999 test flight at the Dryden Flight Research Center.
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    CRV

    The NASA X-38, which is sometimes referred to as "the CRV", a prototype unmanned version of a CRV for the International Space Station
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    X38

    NASA X-38, experimental plane
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    Spaceplane

    The X-33 was a prototype made as part of an attempt by NASA to build a SSTO hydrogen fuelled space plane that failed when the hydrogen tank design proved to be unconstructable in the planned way. ... | other US space planes North American X-15 (museum) USAF X-20 Dyna-Soar (cancelled) Rockwell X-30 (cancelled) Lockheed Martin X-33 (Cancelled) Orbital Sciences X-34 (cancelled) Boeing X-37 NASA X-38 (cancelled) Boeing X-40 Blackstar (unconfirmed project) Black Horse Chrysler Corporation Shuttle SERV (cancelled) Roton (cancelled) |

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