X-33 Design

Lockheed Martin passed the critical design review for NASA's X-33 research rocket plane on Oct. 31, moving one step closer to first flight in July 1999. The X-33 is to test the technologies that would be used in a single-stage-to-orbit launcher that Lockheed Martin calls ``VentureStar,'' and some of...

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