Key Points and Summary - Decades before the Space Shuttle, the U.S. backed the X-20 Dyna-Soar: a reusable, skip-glide spaceplane born from WWII German concepts and accelerated by the Sputnik shock.
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Before he walked on the moon, Neil Armstrong applied to fly the X-20 Dyna-Soar — a Mach 5 spaceplane that was cancelled and never flew
In 1960, nine years before he walked on the moon, a 30-year-old test pilot named Neil Armstrong applied to fly the X-20 ...
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The full-sized black mock-up of the spacecraft was unveiled for the media at a ceremony in Las Vegas in 1962. Five astronauts flanked the ship, among them was William “Bill” Dana, who had flown the ...
Decades before America’s Space Shuttle would roar into the sky, the United States already had plans to field a reusable spaceplane. Born out of Germany’s World War II efforts to create a bomber that ...
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