NASA Flight Tests Reusable System


Message posted by Jose on March 15, 2001 at 17:04:49 PST:

The X-40A, a spacecraft prototype, is release from a truss carried by a helicopter 15,000 feet over Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., Wednesday, March 14, 2001. NASA completed the first of a series of free-flight tests of the X-40A, a prototype of a reusable spacecraft that one day may travel to orbit aboard the space shuttle but land independently like an airplane. The spacecraft, built by The Boeing Co.'s Phantom Works, is an 85 percent scale model of the X-37, which NASA hopes will fly two missions aboard the shuttle in 2003. (AP Photo/NASA Dryden, Carla Thomas)

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