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Lockheed-Martin X-33 Venture Star (2001) |
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The X-33 Venture Star was
Lockheed-Martin's entry in NASA's X-33 SSTO program, which was intended to
develop a Single-Stage to Orbit spacecraft to replace the rapidly aging
Space Shuttle. Unlike the more traditional rocket-plane designs offered by its competitors, the Venture Star had a unique triangular shape reminiscent of the experimental lifting bodies tested in the 1960s and 1970s. The first Venture Star was to be an unmanned proof-of-concept demonstrator, but problems with the composites from which the spacecraft was to built resulted in the project's cancellation in 2001. |
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