... attention to them, nor finding out more about these missions. Only a few reported on its successor, the X-37 spaceplane. In effect, the secret shuttle flights marked the normalisation of military space. Romantic adventure that spaceflight might...
... and White Knight Two – an aircraft that has been acquired by Virgin Galactic to add to their fleet of suborbital spaceplanes. The aircraft has now been moved out of its hangar for the first time ever to conduct...
..., Colorado, factory where the company is also building the Dream Chaser Cargo System, an autonomous lifting-body spaceplane contracted by NASA to launch on a rocket, resupply the ISS with cargo, and glide back to Earth for a runway...
... area. One of those was SpaceDev, which made satellite parts and was developing the Dream Chaser spaceplane. Now, with an autonomous Dream Chaser launching as soon as 2022 and a commercial space station concept attracting headlines...
... made the X-15 a recognised part of space history, as indeed it should be. This book tells the story of the historic spaceplane and some of the vehicles that preceded it, such as the fabled Dyna-Soar which took its name...
...-breathing and rocket modes, allowing for hypersonic air travel at Mach 5, or orbital access velocities of Mach 25 for spaceplanes like “Skylon”. RE are supported by their US subsidiary at Castle Rock, Colorado, “Reaction Engines Inc.” and are part...