Skin, aerospike were 'discriminators' on X-33, Payton says
Lockheed Martin's use of a metallic skin thermal protection system, or TPS, and an aerospike engine emerged as "technical discriminators" in the race to develop the X-33 reusable launch vehicle prototype, NASA RLV Director Gary Payton told members of NASA's Advisory Council yesterday. A whole range...
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