Aerospace Killer Bees: USAF X-20 DynaSoar Reusable Spaceplane, Part 1 of 2

[niflap]

Dynamic soaring sure changed its meaning over the years.

[Raveninety9]

This is a great cartoon too bad they didnt made the pilot blink

[generalripper1964]

The X-20 is one of my favorite projects that never flew. I may build a flying scale model one day.

[belisariusorb]

A great and simple spaceplane, should be revived for today.

[rossco1966]

YOU HAVE MADE MY DAY! An entire collection of X-20 vids. Agree with most of your text post as well. I for one have no idea why NASA is stuffing around with the CEV rather than making a 21st century X-20 to get from 0 to 200 miles up (the ISS) and something COMPLETELY different for the odd shot to the moon. The moon mission could be launched unmanned, then loaded in orbit at the ISS. You could fly the TLI stage and lander/return on a non man rated heavy lifter, which is already available.

[acsial]

GREAT that you posted this! It's truly sad that NASA is currently dicking around with ballistic capsules, when there was R&D like this in the early 1960s.

BTW, the Boeing RASV was another nifty, metallic-skinned spaceplane concept...