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Key Points and Summary – In the 1970s, Lockheed’s Skunk Works, NASA, and the U.S. Air Force quietly pursued the L-301 or X-24C, an...
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Key Points and Summary – In the 1970s, Lockheed’s Skunk Works, NASA, and the U.S. Air Force quietly pursued the L-301 or X-24C, an...
Key Points and Summary – NASA’s X-43A was a tiny unmanned testbed that did something huge: it pushed air-breathing flight to nearly Mach 10....
Article Summary – NASA’s X-43A scramjet set a stunning air-breathing speed record in 2004, hitting Mach 9.6 after a B-52/Pegasus launch—but the engine only...
Key Points – The F-16XL, an experimental derivative of the F-16 developed in the early 1980s, featured a radical cranked-arrow delta wing that nearly...
Summary and Key Points: NASA’s F-15 ACTIVE program took the legendary F-15 Eagle to new heights and had one mission: transforming it into a...
The X-37B, often referred to as the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), is a reusable, unmanned spaceplane developed by Boeing and operated by the United...
Key Points and Summary: Five years after its formation, the U.S. Space Force leverages the advanced capabilities of the Boeing-built X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle....
The U.S. military’s X-37B made history last year when it touched down at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center after spending 908 days in orbit.
It has been more than a century since the first scheduled commercial passenger flight took off on Jan. 1, 1914. There are now an...
In December, an unmanned space plane returned to Earth following a successful 908 days in orbit. The X-37B was developed by the Boeing Company...