#advanced space transportation program

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X-34 Technology Testbed Demonstrator.

Date: April 16, 1999

NASA ID: EC99-44976-34

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"The X-34 A-2 resting derelict in open storage on the east shore of Rogers Dry Lake, parked off a public road."

Date: March 17, 2010

NASA ID: NSIAD-99-176

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"The X-34 demonstrator is shown being taken out of its hangar and placed on the tarmac. The X-34 was classified as part of the Pathfinder class demonstrators which include small experimental vehicles or less expensive flight experiments. These demonstrators were driven by technology and were executed every one to two years. They were done quickly, for low cost, and for a wide range of technologies and applications. The X-34 program was cancelled in 2001."

Recorded: April 15, 2004

NASA ID: 9906384

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"The X-34 A-1, together with the Boeing X-40A (left, back), and the MicroCraft X-43 scramjet mockup (left front), shown on exhibit at the NASA DFRC RLV Technology Exposition."

Date: June 22, 2000

NASA ID: NSIAD-99-176

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Advanced Space Transportation Program (ASTP)

"Pictured here is a DC-XA Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) prototype concept with an RLV logo. The Delta Clipper-Experimental (DC-X) was originally developed by McDornell Douglas for the Department of Defense (DOD). The DC-XA is a single-stage-to-orbit, vertical takeoff/vertical landing, launch vehicle concept, whose development is geared to significantly reduce launch costs and will provide a test bed for NASA Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) technology as the Delta Clipper-Experimental Advanced (DC-XA)."

Date: January 23, 1995

NASA ID: 9500884

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Pathfinder: X-34 technology Demonstrator

"The X-34 was part of NASA's Pathfinder Program which demonstrated advanced space transportation technologies through the use of flight experiments and experimental vehicles. These technology demonstrators and flight experiments would support the Agency's goal of dramatically reducing the cost of access to space and would define the future of space transportation pushing technology into a new era of space development and exploration at the dawn of the new century. The X-34 program was cancelled in 2001."

Date: April 15, 2004

NASA ID: 9906402

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Orbital Sciences X-34 mated to modified Lockheed L-1011 TriStar during takeoff on first captive carry flight.

Date: June 29, 1999

NASA ID: EC99-45061-2, EC99-45061-3, EC99-45061-7

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Advanced Space Transportation Program (ASTP)

"This is a computer generated image of a Shuttle launch utilizing 2nd generation Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) flyback boosters, a futuristic concept that is currently undergoing study by NASA's Space Launch Initiative (SLI) Propulsion Office, managed by the Marshall Space Fight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, working in conjunction with the Agency's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Currently, after providing thrust to the Space Shuttle, the solid rocket boosters are parachuted into the sea and are retrieved for reuse. The SLI is considering vehicle concepts that would fly first-stage boosters back to a designated landing site after separation from the orbital vehicle. These flyback boosters would be powered by several jet engines integrated into the booster capable of providing over 100,000 pounds of thrust. The study will determine the requirements for the engines, identify risk mitigation activities, and identify costs associated with risk mitigation and jet engine development and production, as well as determine candidate jet engine options to pursue for the flyback."

Date: April 3, 2000

NASA ID: 0001720