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  1. Beyond the Horizon: Access to Space

    When they first lent their support to the National Aero-Space Plane (NASP), hard-headed engineers and hopeful politicians succumbed to a beguiling...
    Michael H. Gorn, Giuseppe De Chiara in X-Planes from the X-1 to the X-60
    Chapter 2021

  2. Aerodynamics and Engines: NASA’s Research Agenda

    Before the Air Force and the Navy began work with Boeing and Lockheed on the X-32 and X-35 (the demonstrators for the eventual Joint Strike Fighter),...
    Michael H. Gorn, Giuseppe De Chiara in X-Planes from the X-1 to the X-60
    Chapter 2021

  3. Pallet and MPESS Missions

    As the Shuttle was being prepared for Return-to-Flight, the manifest was getting firmed up. For those in Level-IV, it was clear how the future...
    Michael E. Haddad, David J. Shayler in Spacelab Payloads
    Chapter 2022

  4. Competition and the Others: Spacecraft from Around the World

    In the late 1980s visitors of the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget airport, the world’s most prestigious aerospace exhibition, would find themselves...
    Luc van den Abeelen in Spaceplane HERMES
    Chapter 2017

  5. The Main Trends in Development of Astronautics in Russia

    Space exploration is treated in Russia as one of the national priorities regardless of social and economic reforms being carried out. That is why it...
    Anatoly Ivanovich Kiselev, Alexander Alexeevich Medvedev, Valery Alexandrovich Menshikov in Astronautics
    Chapter 2003
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