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On 13 April 2015, the Space Foundation awarded the X-37 team with the 2015 Space Achievement Award "for significantly advancing the state of the art for reusable spacecraft and on-orbit operations, with the design, development, test and orbital operation of the X-37B space flight vehicle over three missions totaling 1,367 days in space".
Bell P-59B Airacomet – National Museum of the United States Air Force; America's First Jet Flight, October 1942 Archived 5 February 2017 at the Wayback Machine – Aircraft Owner Online "How The First U.S. Jet Was Born" – Popular Science
The idea of Soviet reusable space flight is very old, though it was neither continuous nor consistently organized. Before Buran, no project of the programme reached operational status. The first step toward a reusable Soviet spacecraft was the 1954 Burya, a high-altitude prototype jet aircraft
Only one robotic flight was made. Dawn Aerospace Mk.2: The Netherlands / New Zealand: Suborbital rocket launch: Experimental: 2020: Prototype: Uncrewed suborbital space plane. Horizontal takeoff and landing. Dream Chaser: USA: Rocket launch: Utility: 2004: Project: Uncrewed orbiter, originally intended as a crew vehicle. Launched by a Vulcan ...
Flight 90 of the North American X-15 was a research flight conducted by NASA and the US Air Force on July 19, 1963. It was the first of two X-15 missions that passed the 100-km high Kármán line, the FAI definition of space, along with Flight 91 the next month.
Alan Shepard became the first American in space on a suborbital flight three weeks later, on May 5, 1961. [138] John Glenn, the third Mercury astronaut to fly, became the first American to reach orbit on February 20, 1962, but only after the Soviets had launched a second cosmonaut, Gherman Titov , into a day-long flight in August 1961. [ 220 ]
The new plane renamed X-15A-2, had a new 28 -in. fuselage extension to carry liquid hydrogen. [1] It was lengthened by 2.4 feet (73 cm), had a pair of auxiliary fuel tanks attached beneath its fuselage and wings, and a complete heat-resistant ablative coating was added. It took flight for the first time on 25 June 1964.
First transpacific flight (US to Australia): Charles Kingsford Smith and crew, in the Southern Cross, flew from Oakland, California, to Brisbane, Australia via Hawaii and Fiji, between May 31 and June 9, 1928. [174] First rocket-powered aircraft to fly: was the Lippisch Ente flown by Fritz Stamer on June 11, 1928, using solid fuel rockets. [175]