Animation specialist Hazegrayart made a six-minute video of the Russian MTKVA lifting body spaceplane that was meant to compete with the Space Shuttle ...

This led to further aerial towing tests involving aircraft, altogether providing extensive amounts of data that served as guideposts to designing the upcoming space shuttle’s lifting body shape.

The X-24B Lifting Body Paved the Way for the Space Shuttle – In the collection of the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (AFB), Dayton, Ohio, is a ...

A first look at the world’s only authentic space shuttle stack standing in Exposition Park, ahead of the upcoming Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center.

Thus the reusable ships could probably become the space age’s most utilitarian vehicles. An astronaut stranded in orbit could transfer to a small lifting body stowed aboard his disabled spacecraft.

Its black and white color scheme and simple, lifting body design give strong Space Shuttle orbiter vibes, but this is no retro design intended to earn throwback cred.

Officials at the California Science Center in Exposition Park are close to completing a dream launched 30 years ago as they prepare to lift the space shuttle Endeavour from its current horizontal ...

The crash came at the end of a glide test for the heavyweight lifting body spacecraft, designed and intended for astronauts to fly back from space ...

Dream Chaser is about a quarter of the size of a space shuttle orbiter, with roughly half of the shuttle's habitable volume. It's about 30 feet (9 meters) long, with a wingspan of 23 feet (7 meters).

Dream Chaser is a crewed/uncrewed spaceplane in the Space Shuttle mold. Dream Chaser is based on NASA’s HL-20 lifting body spaceplane concept, which in turn is based on the former Soviet Union ...