{"id":483,"date":"2009-11-08T05:18:02","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T05:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/?p=483"},"modified":"2009-11-08T05:18:02","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T05:18:02","slug":"x-38-crew-return-vehicle-finds-new-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/space-station\/x-38-crew-return-vehicle-finds-new-home.php","title":{"rendered":"X-38 Crew Return Vehicle Finds New Home"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of NASA's three X-38 Crew Return Vehicle technology<\/span> demonstrators that flew at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., a decade ago has found a new home in America's heartland.

In this image from test flights in 1999, the X-38<\/span> research vehicle drops away from NASA's B-52 <\/span>mothership immediately after being released from the B-52's wing pylon. More than 30 years earlier, this same B-52 launched the original lifting-body vehicles flight tested by NASA and the Air Force at what is now called the Dryden Flight Research Center and the Air Force Flight Test Center.<\/p>

The wingless lifting body craft was transferred this past weekend from NASA's Johnson Space Center<\/span> in Houston to the Strategic Air and Space Museum, located just off Interstate 80 at Ashland, Neb., about 20 miles southeast of Omaha. The X-38 adds to the museum's growing collection of aerospace vehicles and other historical artifacts.<\/p>

The move of the second X-38 <\/span>built to the museum has a fitting connection, as the X-38 vehicles were air-launched from NASA's famous B-52B 008 mothership. The B-52 bomber served as the backbone of the Air Force's Strategic Air Command during the command's history.<\/p>

Prior to cancellation, the X-38 program was developing the technology for proposed vehicles that could return up to seven International Space Station<\/span><\/a> crewmembers to Earth <\/span>in case of an emergency. These vehicles would have been carried to the space station in the cargo bay of a space shuttle<\/span> and attached to station docking ports. If an emergency arose that forced the ISS <\/span>crew to leave the space station<\/span><\/a>, a Crew Return Vehicle would have undocked and returned them to Earth much like the space shuttle<\/span><\/a>, although the vehicle would have deployed a parafoil for the final descent and landing.<\/p><\/div>

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