1985

Copper Canyon was a classified Darpa program that ran from 1982-85 and led to the X-30 National AeroSpace Plane (NASP). The X-30 was to be an air-breathing, single-stage-to-orbit demonstrator powered by airframe-integrated ramjet/scramjet engines burning liquid hydrogen fuel. The X-30 was...

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