In the 1990s NASA and Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works set out to build a radically new spacecraft designed to replace the Space Shuttle and make access to orbit far cheaper. The experimental X-33 was ...
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS & Space Administration boss Daniel Goldin's office is cluttered with models: space shuttles, satellites, supersonic airplanes. But the one he picks up and tenderly sets on his ...
Is this Florida or Texas? IN HIS science-fiction classic “From Earth to the Moon”, Jules Verne tells the tale of a group of American entrepreneurs who had the crazed notion that it was possible to ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In 1996 NASA selected Lockheed Martin ...
Click to open image viewer. In 1996 NASA selected Lockheed Martin to build and fly the X-33 test vehicle to demonstrate advanced technologies for a new reusable launch vehicle to succeed the Space ...