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Decades before America’s Space Shuttle would roar into the sky, the United States already had plans to field a reusable spaceplane. Born out of Germany’s World War II efforts to create a bomber that ...

What You Need to Know: The X-20 Dyna-Soar, developed by the U.S. Air Force and Boeing from 1959 to 1963, was designed to be a pioneering hypersonic space plane that could serve as a reconnaissance ...

You are correct concerning the Dyna-Soar Project time frame and the X-40 (AW&ST Aug. 4, p. 24). It is 50 years since the S-464L cum RS-620 Dyna-Soar project that culminated in a final competition ...

WITH the exciting development of Project Mercury, not much attention has been paid to the fact that this is only one of two major American programs for putting a man into space. The other, the Air ...

After months of hesitation, the U.S. Air Force last week signed the orders for development and production of System 464-L, a manned, maneuverable space vehicle called Dyna-Soar. Reason for hesitation: ...