Apr 25 1989
From The Space Library
The Department of Defense (DoD) announced it would phase out its participation in the National Aerospace Plane program, reducing funding for the project by $200 million in fiscal year 1990 and obligating its remaining $100 million contribution to NASA. The National Aerospace Plane was proposed by President Reagan as a hypersonic vehicle that would be capable of taking off from conventional runways and subsequently boosting itself into low-Earth orbit. Total project development costs were estimated at $3.5 billion, of which 80 percent would come from the DoD and 20 percent would be provided by NASA. DoD and NASA had already invested $850 million to develop an X-30 experimental prototype vehicle. (UPI, Apr 25/89)
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