- SpaceShipOne@
Find sites for SpaceShipOne and its carrier aircraft White Knight, the world's first privately funded manned space program. Sites feature background information, special reports, mission objectives and results, and launch video clips of the experimental air-launched suborbital spaceplace which used a hybrid rocket motor.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Spacecraft/SpaceShipOne
- X-33 History Project Home Page
Demonstrating the key design and operational aspects of a Single Stage to Orbit (SSTO) Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) rocket system.
www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/x-33/menu1.htm
- X-15 Rocket Plane, The
Description and photographs of the North American X-15, the rocket plane that took test pilots to the edge of space for the first time.
www.x15.com
- Wikipedia: Reusable Launch System
Article about reusable launch vehicles (RLV), launch vehicles which are capable of launching into space more than once.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reusable_launch_system
- NASA Marshall Center Space Transportation
NASA's initiatives to dramatically improve access to space.
www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/spacetransportation
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