The Shuttle’s Unlikely Predecessor
The M2-F1, the unlikely forefather to the shuttle, was the world's first manned lifting body. Made of wood with an internal framework of steel tubes and no wings, the M-21 looked more like a bathtub sitting on a tricycle than an aircraft.
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