Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
NASA’s X-38 was an experimental re-entry vehicle, designed to serve as an emergency crew return vehicle (CRV) for the International Space Station (ISS). The...
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NASA’s X-38 was an experimental re-entry vehicle, designed to serve as an emergency crew return vehicle (CRV) for the International Space Station (ISS). The...
The NF-104A was enshrined for fans of aviation and cinema to admire during the climactic scene of 1983’s Best Picture nominee, The Right Stuff....
The Buran was Russia’s Cold War attempt to compete with NASA’s space shuttle. The Buran did get into space, however, the fall of the...
X-20: A Short History – Hypersonic weapons are all the rage these days, but the United States once had a hypersonic space plane that was...
The Next Concorde? The X-59 As a certifiable “Bon Vivant” who likes to travel in style (always opting to upgrade from Cattle Class, er,...
This week, NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) research aircraft returned to Lockheed Martin Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California, after it had completed a series...
The X-37B looks like something our of a sci-fi movie. What is the plane’s actual mission? Was it designed to fight a space war...
Supersonic flight creates a nettlesome sonic boom and that’s why commercial supersonic jet travel is banned over the United States. NASA and Lockheed Marin...
The X-40A Might not be super well-known today but it paved the way for the X-37B: After the space shuttle retired, it looked like...
X-37B – The U.S. Space Plane Keeps Observers Guessing: At first glance, you think you are looking at a miniature version of the space...