This is an artist's conception of the VentureStar single-stage-to orbit Reuseable Launch Vehicle (RLV) on its launch pad, ready for…
The LRV-2 (Low Reynolds Vehicle No. 2), seen here on the ramp at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif.,…
This NACA High-Speed Flight Station photograph shows a side-view of the X-3 Stiletto research aircraft on the ramp at Edwards…
Surplus Navy Phoenix missiles, like this one mounted on the centerline pylon of NASA's F-15B research aircraft, may be used…
An inert AIM-54 Phoenix missile nestled under the fuselage of NASA Dryden's F-15B aircraft is being studied as a possible…
NASA Dryden aircraft and avionics technicians (from left) Bryan Hookland, Art Cope, Herman Rijfkogel, and Jonathan Richards install the nose…
This artist's rendering depicts the three designs submitted for the X-33 proposal for a technology demonstrator of a Single-Stage-To-Orbit (SSTO)…
The X-2, initially an Air Force program, was scheduled to be transferred to the civilian National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics…
This 1952 photograph shows the X-2 #2 (46-675) with a collapsed nose landing gear, after landing on the first glide…
X-2 Number 1 (#674) in flight over Southern California.