Budget concerns could shrink X-fleet further
Nearly 50 years after Chuck Yeager shattered the sound barrier in his orange Bell X-1, NASA is struggling in this century to break the technology barrier even as its fleet of futuristic X-craft dwindles. With the X-33 and X-34 rocket planes cancelled last week (DAILY, March 2) and a third program -...
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