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help| 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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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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Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum
NASA X-38 -
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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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