X-33 slips until July 2000 after composite tank debonds
A manufacturing mishap involving critical composite fuel tanks has forced another delay in the planned first launch of the NASA/Lockheed Martin X-33 reusable launch vehicle testbed, bringing the total slippage in the program to 16 months. According to a NASA spokesman, the internal wall on one of...
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