The second X-43A hypersonic research aircraft, attached to a modified Pegasus booster rocket and followed by a chase F-18, was…
Centurion designer Bill Parks and remote pilot Wyatt Sadler go over the checklist for a test flight of the battery-powered…
Artist’s depiction of a Hyper-X research vehicle under scramjet power in free-flight following separation from its booster rocket.
With the snow-covered San Gabriel Mountains as a backdrop and a motorcycle-mounted chase crew alongside, a quarter-scale model of the…
The third X-43A hypersonic research aircraft, attached to a modified Pegasus booster rocket, was taken to launch altitude by NASA’s…
NASA’s first X-38 Advanced Technology Demonstrator for the proposed Crew Return Vehicle is transported down a road at NASA’s Dryden…
This artist’s concept depicts the Hyper-X research vehicle riding on a booster rocket prior to being launched by the Dryden…
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…
