Lifting bodies

American reusable automated cargo lifting-body spaceplane

Kliper (Клипер, English: Clipper) was an early-2000s proposed partially-reusable (excluding orbital section and thermal protection shield) crewed spacecraft concept by RSC Energia. Due to a lack of funding from the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Russian Space Agency (RSA), the project was indefinitely postponed in 2006.

experimental unmanned aerial vehicle by Boeing

1969 experimental aircraft by Martin Marietta

airplane

uncrewed re-usable spaceplane technology demonstrator for the VentureStar

American experimental aircraft

aircraft configuration in which the fuselage produces significant lift

thumb|VentureStar releasing a spacecraft VentureStar was a single-stage-to-orbit reusable launch system proposed by Lockheed Martin and funded by the U.S. government. The goal was to replace the Space Shuttle by developing a re-usable spaceplane that could launch satellites into orbit at 1/10 of the cost. While the requirement was for an uncrewed launcher, it was expected to carry passengers as cargo. The VentureStar would have had a wingspan of , a length of , and would have weighed roughly 1,000 tonnes (2.2 million lb).

lifting body prototype

proposed dedicated lifeboat or escape module for the International Space Station

lifting body prototype

type of aircraft

lifting body prototype, rebuilt from the crashed M2-F2

NASA cancelled spaceplane project

lifting body prototype

experimental US space project

prototype lifting-body airliner