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engineers opted for a midair launch scheme for Spiral. Known as "50 / 50", the idea was that the spaceplane and a liquid fuel booster stage would be launched...

A spaceplane is a vehicle that can fly and glide like an aircraft in Earth's atmosphere and maneuver like a spacecraft in outer space. To do so, spaceplanes...

poor to afford good shoes and wears bast shoes instead. The MiG-105 "Spiral" spaceplane was nicknamed Lapot for the shape of its nose. Bast shoes played an...

Skylon is a series of concept designs for a reusable single-stage-to-orbit spaceplane by the British company Reaction Engines Limited (Reaction), using SABRE...

Center, and was one of the cosmonauts involved in development of the Spiral spaceplane. She retired from the space program on 1 October 1969, and from active...

Dream Chaser is an American reusable lifting-body spaceplane developed by Sierra Space. Originally intended as a crewed vehicle, the Dream Chaser Space...

The DARPA XS-1 was an experimental spaceplane/booster with the planned capability to deliver small satellites into orbit for the U.S. Military. It was...

Hermes was a proposed spaceplane designed by the French Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES) in 1975, and later by the European Space Agency (ESA)...

TrAnspoRtation") is a concept study for a robotic single-stage reusable spaceplane capable of horizontal takeoff and landing, by India's Defence Research...

known under the NATO reporting name as AT-6 Spiral Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-105 Spiral, a Soviet spaceplane Spiral dive, a type of generally undesirable and...

sub-system of Project 921. The term 921-3 is often used for the Chinese spaceplane program.[not verified in body] The Chinese National Manned Space Program...

part of a broad Russian aerospace industry cooperation to build: Spiral spaceplane Buran (spacecraft) Zelik Yoffe [ru] (1961—1969) Anatoly Molotkov (1969—1988)...

A spaceplane incorporates aspects of both aeroplanes and spacecraft. Most concepts were only capable of sub-orbital spaceflight. Lists of spacecraft List...

pinyin: shén lóng; lit. 'divine dragon') is a Chinese reusable robotic spaceplane currently in development. Only a few pictures have appeared since it was...

suborbital horizontal-takeoff, horizontal-landing (HTHL), rocket-powered spaceplane that was under development by the California-based company XCOR Aerospace...

Yak-130 MiG-105 Spiral - 1965 MiG-110 - proposed cargo/passenger aircraft, 1995; not built MiG-2000 - ramjet-powered SSTO spaceplane, 1990s; lost to the...

Orbit (TSTO) re-usable launch vehicle, in which the second stage is a spaceplane. For this purpose, a winged reusable launch vehicle technology demonstrator...

The Airbus Defence and Space Spaceplane, also called EADS Astrium TBN according to some sources, is a suborbital spaceplane concept for carrying space tourists...

by a launch vehicle, then re-enters Earth's atmosphere and lands as a spaceplane. The X-37 is operated by the Department of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities...

MAKS Rendering of a MAKS spaceplane carried atop of an Antonov An-225 to stratosphere for launching into space Country of origin Soviet Union Operator...