COUSIN OF PEGASUS?
NASA's planned X-34 small reusable launch vehicle (RLV) prototype, which the agency hopes will lead to a cheap way to launch small satellite payloads of 1,000-2,000 pounds, "most probably has to be lifted by an aircraft," says John Mansfield, chief of NASA's RLV efforts. "All the ideas we've seen so...
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