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... the Dyna-Soar ? They may well even ask: What is the Dyna-Soar ? The main reason for including this particular vehicle in our ongoing series lies in its remarkably foresighted design. Clearly the Dyna-Soar / X ... flyback version. The second stage of the Aerospace plane looked much like Dyna-Soar but it needed to be powered. Dyna-Soar , meanwhile, had not originally been designed to be powered so could not ...

... and 1963 the Dyna-Soar program consumed $430 million of the US taxpayer's money. However, it never flew. Cancelled less than two weeks after President Kennedy's assassination, the Dyna-Soar (or X-20) was consigned to oblivion by the stroke of a pen. Today, much of the research and technology acquired during the Dyna-Soar program is still valid ... being used as background for the various vehicles on the drawing boards. The story of Dyna-Soar is one of the great "what-ifs" of American aerospace history. If it had been ...

... II, the Dyna-Soar went through a multitude of design iterations before being cancelled just short of completion in late 1963. For more information read INTRODUCTION to the book Dyna-Soar Hypersonic Strategic Weapons ...

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Media:1963-09 X-20 ADA951933.pdf History of the X-20A Dyna-Soar Sept 1963 Category:Publications

... is a competitive development with DYNA-SOAR In the sense that each of them are sic designed to provide low earth orbit manned flight with controlled re-entry. DYNA-SOAR does it one way ... rather ill-defined military po­tential, than does DYNA-SOAR , and, moreover, that it will be avail­able much sooner than DYNA-SOAR . . . . "I think the DYNA-SOAR project can work out satisfactorily. The real question ...

... on the air force's Dyna-Soar Dynamic Soaring program and how did you decide upon the Douglas F5D-1 Skylancer as the suitable demonstrator for parts of the Dyna-Soar flight profile. And did you develop any procedures based on flying this aircraft? '''Armstrong:''' Yes, I did. The Dyna-Soar program, of course, was first intended ...

... pretty well going along, and they started another X-20 Program, which was called the Dyna-Soar, and it had four Air Force pilots and two NASA pilots. Then at the time ... . I was told that I was going to be, since I had worked with the Dyna-Soar and been on the other programs fairly close to space hardware, that I was going ... :''' When you were looking at those proposals, was there a lot of similarities between the Dyna-Soar Program and the Shuttle? '''A. Crews:''' No, they were significantly different. The North American proposal ...

... ad­vances in technology.. . "With the Dyna-Soar experience in mind, it could be a big minus from the standpoint of developmental continuity in later years. Dyna-Soar was killed for a number of ... that frame of reference, the short-duration, non-rendezvousing MOL could go the way of Dyna-Soar , offering "insuf­ficient technological advancement to justify the cost of completing the project." . . ." ''(A-N ...

Cancellation of USAF Dyna Soar ( X-20 ) manned aero spacecraft project announced by Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara . Some ... to the Dyna Soar Project and Manned Orbital Lab. followed discussions with NASA and were fully coordinated with the programs of this agency. The transfer of research resources and objectives from Dyna Soar to ...

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