Synopsis: The X-20 Dyna-Soar was a Cold War-era attempt to build a reusable, piloted, winged spaceplane that could ride a ...

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 ...

What You Need to Know: The X-20 Dyna-Soar, developed by the U.S. Air Force and Boeing from 1959 to 1963, was designed to be a pioneering hypersonic space plane that could serve as a reconnaissance ...

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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 ...

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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, ...

In 1961, Yuri Gagarin was almost thrown into space and dragged back again inside a spherical vehicle known as Vostok 1, while a few weeks later American Alan Shepard followed suit in a similarly ...

Key Points and Summary: The Air Force's X-20 Dyna Soar Mach 20 Mistake? -In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the U.S. Air Force pursued the X-20 Dyna-Soar: a manned, reusable, winged spaceplane meant ...