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X-20A Dyna-Soar
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The X-20A Dyna-Soar, designed and built by Boeing, was a military reusable spaceplane intended for several roles: Reconnaissance, bombing, orbital rescue, satellite maintenance and interception/destruction of enemy satellites. The program started in November 1959 and was cancelled in December 1963. Unlike contemporary spacecraft that returned to earth on a ballistic trajectory, the X-20A Dyna-Soar would glide to earth in pilot-controlled flight and land like an aircraft. |
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"Strangled Infant: The Boeing X-20A Dyna-Soar" (Clarence J. Geiger)
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"History of the X-20A Dyna-Soar" (Clarence J. Geiger, AFSC Historical Publications Series 63-50-I, October 1963)
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"Rise and Fall of the Dyna-Soar: A History of USAF Hypersonic Research" (MAJ Roy Franklin Houchin II, USAF)
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