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A year before X-33 flies, Skunk Works refining VentureStar

Staff August 04, 1999
Engineers at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works have a design for the full scale VentureStar one-stage reusable launch vehicle that will fly even with a weight margin mandated by corporate headquarters, but they must await the first flight of the X-33 suborbital testbed next July to understand fully how...

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