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Mach 18: Boeing’s X-20 Dyna-Soar Bomber Looked Like a Game Changer

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 could serve as a reconnaissance ...
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X-20: NASA Had Plans for a Space Plane That Could Go 17,500 MPH

X-20 Dyna-Soar – The debate over how American astronauts will travel to space has long been settled. As the last sixty years of American space travel demonstrate, NASA uses rockets to launch their ...
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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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America's hypersonic dreams: NASP and Dyna-Soar

The US Air Force repeatedly tried to build aircraft that could reach orbit. The National Aerospace Plane promised Mach 25 flight while Dyna-Soar would have been a space bomber. The hypersonic dreams ...