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Links to resources about the history of reusable launch
and space vehicles. Also includes info on various rocket
powered aircraft.
General
Past RLV & Rocketplane
Projects in US
- SpaceShipOne
- Advent
Launch Services (Civilian Astronaut Corp) - the
plans to take reservations for space tourism flights
were dropped in April 99 (62 people had put down deposits
but they needed 2000 to fund the vehicle.) Now the
group concentrates on the X
Prize.
- Pioneer Rocketplane
/ Rocketplane Ltd. / Rocketplane Global/ Rocketplane
Kistler
- Rotary Rocket Company
- Space Access, LLC
(WaybackMachine.org
- last entry Feb.2004) - this company had a scramjet/rocket
combo design for the first stage vehicle that would
carry a rocket powered booster to take a payload to
orbit. The firm was run by well-respected people from
the hypersonics research field. They needed a multi-billion
dollar investment, however, to get it to fly.
- Defunct Suborbital Projects
- SSX - Space Ship eXperimental
- concept that led to the DC-X
project
- Truax
Engineering Multimedia Archive, Thomas Duffey
has collected a great number of articles and videos
dealing with the various rockets designed by Robert
Truax.
- X-Planes General Info
- X-1 (XS-1)
- X-15 - the first reusable rocketship
- X-20 and Other Semi-Reusable
Spaceplane Projects

Rocketdyne AR2-3 engine provide boosts for the NF-104
aerospace trainer.
Used operationally, for 7 years in the 1960's and now
intended for the X-37.
- Rocket-assisted F-104
- Douglas
D-558-II Skyrocket
- Lenticular
Vehicles - Astronautix - Mark Wade reports on
studies during 1959-1964 by NASA and the US Air Force
of
saucer shaped vehicle designs.
- NASA / US Military
- Military Studies
- HL-20
"Personal Launch System"
- X-33/VentureStar
- X-33 Aerospike Engine
Development
- X-34
- X-37 - unmanned orbital
test vehicle, main test bed for the OSP. NASA pulled
of of the program in 2004. DARPA/AF took over the
project.
- X-38: ISS Reusable Crew Return
Vehicle
- X-40& Military Spaceplanes
- Orbital Space Plane (OSP)
- Canceled in favor of CEV program
- RASCAL
- "Responsive Access, Small Cargo, and Affordable
Launch Demonstration"
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- CCTV (Crew/Cargo Transfer
Vehicle) - earlier discussions of CCTV
- Alternate Access to Station
(AAS) - program to use commercial launchers
to supply the ISS
Past RLV Projects Outside
of USA
- German Rocketplanes:
- Chinese RLV(?):
- Britain
- Europe:
- Japan
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