DROP TEST
The next NASA X-38 test flight at Edwards AFB, Calif.--scheduled for Feb. 24--is to include the vehicle's first intercept of a spaceflight trajectory for 8-10 sec. prior to drogue chute deployment (see photo). The unmanned X-38 test Vehicle 132 will be dropped from a NASA B-52 carrier aircraft at 39...
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