The shuttle received a very large amount of it's original research data from
the X-23 (1966), X-24A (1969) and B (1973) projects. The X-20 is also very
interesting, but never flew. I remember seeing a 3/4 (?) scale model built
of the shuttle which was used for low level flight testing, but cannot find
a link to it. Here is a brief chronolgy of the shuttle's history.
http://history.nasa.gov/sts1/pdfs/msfc.pdf
John
>That is a good question, I know that the one they tested in the 70's was
>named "Enterprise". It never went into outer space, it was only piggybacked
>on a 747 and let loose to test its descent and landing capabilities. I have
>to imagine that the original project was just some alpha-numeric
designation,
>anyone know?
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