Aviation Week

Back to Life for Dyna-Soar

You are correct concerning the Dyna-Soar Project time frame and the X-40 (AW&ST Aug. 4, p. 24). It is 50 years since the S-464L cum RS-620 Dyna-Soar project that culminated in a final competition ...
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X-20 Dyna-Soar, the Cold War space bomber that almost put nuclear weapons in orbit

During the Cold War, the US Air Force quietly developed the X-20 Dyna-Soar, a piloted space plane designed for orbital reconnaissance and nuclear strike missions. This is the story of how it pushed ...
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The X20 Dyna-Soar and the Soviet Death Star, America's forgotten space war programs

The X20 Dyna-Soar and the Soviet Death Star, America's forgotten space war programs Before the Space Shuttle, the U.S. Air Force was secretly developing an orbital nuclear bomber, while the Soviets ...
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X-20 Dyna-Soar

What You Need to Know: The X-20 Dyna-Soar, developed by the U.S. Air Force and Boeing from 1959 to 1963, was designed to be a pioneering hypersonic space plane that ...