Dyna-Soar

Titan III & Dyna-Soar

Titan III & Dyna-Soar in Flight

Titan III & Dyna-Soar Jettisons Fuel Tanks

Titan III & Dyna-Soar in Ascent

Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar Launch

Cutaway Model of the Standard Dyna Soar

Dyna Soar Model with Booster

Cutaway Model of the Advanced Dyna Soar, the X-20X, with Manned Mid-Deck

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X-20 Dyna-Soar on Launch Platform with Titan I

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The X-20 Dyna-Soar design contract was awarded to Boeing on Nov. 9, 1959. The Dyna-Soar, designed to be a 35.5-foot piloted reusable space vehicle, had a sharply swept delta 20.4-foot-span wing and a graphite and zirconia composite nose cap and used three retractable struts for landing. Eleven manned flights were to be launched from Cape Canaveral Fla., starting in November 1964. Dyna-Soar's first orbital flight was tentatively scheduled for early 1965. The X-20 reached the mockup stage, however, the U.S. government canceled the program on Dec. 10, 1963, because Dyna-Soar had no viable military mission and was too expensive for a research vehicle. The partially completed prototype and the mockup were scrapped, as well as initial tooling set up for a production line for 10 space planes.

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Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar Mock-up on Trailer

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