X-38 Crew Return Vehicle The X-38 prototype of the Crew Return Vehicle for the International Space Station is suspended under its giant 7,500-square-foot parafoil...The X-38 prototype of the Crew Return Vehicle for the International Space Station is suspended under its giant 7,500-square-foot parafoil...The X-38 lifting body research vehicle is shown here suspended in a hangar at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in...NASA engineer Wayne Peterson from the Johnson Space Center reviews postflight checklists following a spectacular flight of the X-38 prototype...A 4-foot-long model of NASA's X-38, an experimental crew return vehicle, glides to Earth after being dropped from a Cessna...This sequence of photographs shows a 4-foot-long model of NASA's X-38 gliding to Earth after being dropped from a Cessna...The X-38 prototype of the Crew Return Vehicle for the International Space Station drops away from its launch pylon on...The X-38, mounted beneath the right wing of NASA's B-52, climbed from the runway at Edwards Air Force Base for...The second free-flight test of an evolving series of X-38 prototypes took place July 10, 2001 when the X-38 was...The X-38 prototypes are intended to perfect a "crew lifeboat" for the International Space Station. The X-38 vehicle 131R demonstrates...The X-38 research vehicle dropped away from NASA's B-52 mothership after being released from the B-52's wing pylon.Reminiscent of the lifting body research flights conducted more than 30 years earlier, NASA's B-52 mothership lifts off carrying a...NASA's B-52 mothership lifted off, carrying a new generation of lifting body research vehicle-the X-38.The X-38 under the wing of NASA's B-52 mothership prior to release of the lifting-body research vehicle.The X-38 research vehicle was mounted under the wing of the B-52 mothership prior to a 1997 test flight.One of the X-38 lifting-body research vehicles is shown mated to NASA's B-52 mothership in flight prior to launch.
