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NASA schedules X-38 'lifeboat' tests
NASA will conduct atmospheric glide flights of a full-scale prototype of a potential International Space Station (ISS) Crew Return Vehicle (CRV) in 1997. Two models of the test article, designated the X-38, are being built by prototype builder Scaled Composites. The CRV could replace Russian Soyuz TM CRVs at the ...
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