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 ...

Key Points and Summary - Decades before the Space Shuttle, the U.S. backed the X-20 Dyna-Soar: a reusable, skip-glide spaceplane born from WWII German concepts and accelerated by the Sputnik shock.

My son had toy airplanes that looked like the X-20 Dyna-Soar – something resembling a stubby version of the space shuttle. But don’t be fooled by appearances. The X-20 was designed to be a hypersonic ...

Key Points and Summary - The Boeing X-20 Dyna Soar was a Cold War gamble to build a reusable, piloted spaceplane that could orbit Earth at roughly Mach 22, strike targets, service satellites, and ...

Sixty years ago the US launched a project to build a space ship that never actually made it into space Five astronauts flanked the ship, among them was William “Bill” Dana, who had flown the X-15 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...