Sep 122019
 

Continuing…

In 1985 Rockwell considered the business case for a small unmanned research vehicle to be released from the Orbiter payload bay. It would be *something* akin to the X-37, though of an utterly different lifting body configuration.

Also note: this vehicle re-appears later in the report, including a nice three-view of an “operational” version.

 Posted by at 11:33 pm