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Key Points and Summary: The Air Force's X-20 Dyna Soar Mach 20 Mistake? -In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the U.S. Air Force pursued the X-20 Dyna-Soar: a manned, reusable, winged spaceplane meant ...

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XCOR's Lynx vehicle mockup (AW&ST May 14, p. 26) looks broadly similar to the design of the never-flown Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar, a single-pilot spaceplane that was canceled by the U.S. Air Force in ...