A side-view of an early desk-top model of NASA’s X-43A “Hyper-X,” or Hypersonic Experimental Vehicle, which has been developed to…
NASA’s first X-38 Advanced Technology Demonstrator for the proposed Crew Return Vehicle (CRV) arrives at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center,…
The X-38 lifting body research vehicle, seen here wrapped in a protective material, is lowered onto a truck for shipping…
The third X-43A hypersonic research aircraft and its modified Pegasus booster rocket left the runway, carried aloft by NASA’s B-52B…
The second X-43A hypersonic research aircraft and its modified Pegasus booster rocket dropped away from NASA’s B-52B launch aircraft over…
Technicians at NASA Dryden installed the “goalpost” fixture to the Orion crew module integration stand during conversion of the stand…
The X-38 Vehicle 131R, intended to prove the utility of a “lifeboat” crew return vehicle to bring crews home from…
Technicians at NASA Dryden connected one of two mobilizer units to the Orion flight test crew module transportation fixture.
This computational fluid dynamics (CFD) image shows the Hyper-X vehicle at a Mach 7 test condition with the engine operating.
EC00-0023-10The X-43A Hypersonic Experimental (Hyper-X) Vehicle hangs suspended in the cavernous Benefield Anechoic Facility at Edwards Air Force Base during…