DC-X: The NASA Rocket That Inspired SpaceX and Blue Origin

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The first flight of the second version of the Delta Clipper, the DC-XA, at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. (Credit: NASA)
The rocket looked like it was out of a science fiction movie. A gleaming white pyramid resting on four spindly legs, the experimental craft was NASA’s ticket into a new era of space exploration.
With a series of built-in rockets
on its underside, the ship could rise from the ground and touch back down again
vertically — the first of its kind.
The Delta

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October 29, 2019 at 06:16PM

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