X-38 in second drop test.
NASA'S X-38 subscale prototype of a crew rescue vehicle for the International Space Station completed its second drop test in a month Friday. The 80%-scale prototype used aerodynamic controls to guide its lifting-body fuselage during about 12 seconds of free flight after it was dropped from NASA's B...
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