Synopsis: The X-20 Dyna-Soar was a Cold War-era attempt to build a reusable, piloted, winged spaceplane that could ride a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Space travel technology and rocketry always sit on the fine line between uses for evil and applications for the betterment of society. The same technology that can be used to ferry astronauts from ...

Virgin Galactic has unveiled a SpaceShipTwo (SS2) design, created by Scaled Composites, that harks back to the NASA/USAF Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar glider of the 1960s, while Scaled's carrier aircraft, ...

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: ...

XCOR's Lynx vehicle mockup (AW&ST May 14, p. 26) looks broadly similar to the design of the never-flown Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar, a single-pilot spaceplane that was canceled by the U.S. Air Force in ...

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 ...