X-38 Transitions From

NASA started full-scale tests this month of its X-38 concept for a space station lifeboat, leading to a seven-person Earth-return vehicle that could be operational in 2003. The unmanned flights here will be studying the latter stages of the spacecraft's mission, when it transitions from subsonic...

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