National Aero-space Plane: A Technology Development and Demonstration Program to Build the X-30 : Report to Congressional CommitteesThe Office, 1988 - 78 pages |
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According to NASP Air Force air-breathing aircraft airframe contractor build and test Comments component computational fluid dynamic concept Concur Copper Canyon costs DARPA Defense Research Department of Defense Develop Enabling Technologies development and demonstration Director of Defense DOD and NASA DOD Response Draft Report earth's atmosphere engine and airframe flight testing Foreign object damage funding GAO observed GAO reported HOTOL hydrogen Hypersonic Cruise Airplane hypersonic cruise capability hypersonic transport integrated investment low earth orbit Mach speeds million mission applications NASA's NASP Program officials NASP Program's Management National Aero-Space Plane Operational Aerospace Plane payloads into orbit Phase Potential Program Management Program Schedule propulsion system ramjet Reduce Risks Research and Engineering scramjet SDIO shuttle single-stage-to-orbit space launch space launch capability space launch systems space launch vehicles Spaceplane speeds of Mach supercomputers supersonic technological risks technology development technology maturation test the X-30 U.S. Department wind tunnels X-30 experimental vehicle
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Page 1 - Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, in the Executive Office of the President...
Page 1 - The Honorable Robert A. Roe Chairman, Committee on Science, Space, and Technology House of Representatives The Honorable Robert S.
Page 9 - Austrian physicist, the figure represents the ratio of the speed of an object to the speed of sound in the surrounding medium, such as air, through which the object is moving.
Page 2 - ... effort is included. Author N88-23764# General Accounting Office, Washington, DC NATIONAL AERO-SPACE PLANE: A TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AND DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM TO BUILD THE X-30 Apr. 1988 80 p (GAO/NSIAD-88-122) Avail: NTIS HC A05/MF A01 The National Aero-Space Plane (NASP) Program is a joint DOD/NASA technology development and demonstration program to build and test the X-30 experimental flight vehicle. The X-30 is designed to take off horizontally from a conventional runway, reach hypersonic...
Page 2 - ... DEVELOPMENT AND DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM TO BUILD THE X-30 Apr. 1988 80 p (GAO/NSIAD-88-122) Avail: NTIS HC A05/MF A01 The National Aero-Space Plane (NASP) Program is a joint DOD/NASA technology development and demonstration program to build and test the X-30 experimental flight vehicle. The X-30 is designed to take off horizontally from a conventional runway, reach hypersonic speeds up to Mach 25, attain low Earth orbit, and return to land on a conventional runway. The X-30 would fly 10 times faster...
Page 2 - ... runway, reach hypersonic speeds up to Mach 25, attain low Earth orbit, and return to land on a conventional runway. The X-30 would fly 10 times faster and higher than existing air-breathing aircraft. The NASP Program is described and a status report of X-30 development provided, including the following: (1) goals and objectives; (2) program costs and schedule estimates; (3) key technological developments, integration, and risks; (4) potential military, space, and commercial mission applications;...
Page 18 - The members are appointed for terms ranging from one to four years and are selected on the basis of their preeminence in the fields of science, technology and its application to military operations, research, engineering, and manufacturing and acquisition process.
Page 28 - ... the Strategic Defense Initiative: Provided further, That $55,000,000 of funds made available for the National Aerospace Plane (NASP) Program may not be obligated or expended until the Secretary of Defense certifies that the Department of Defense and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have negotiated revised funding arrangements for NASP development which significantly increase NASA investment as a percentage of total NASP research, development, test and evaluation costs...
Page 21 - Figure 3-2. Office of Aeronautics and Space Technology (as of August 14, 1984) OAST also had management responsibility for Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, California, Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, and Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. These centers conducted almost all of NASA's aeronautics technology research as well as a considerable amount of space technology research. Dryden Flight Research Facility in Edwards, California, which had been an independent NASA center,...
Page 76 - Science Advisor to the President Office of Science and Technology Policy Executive Office Building Washington, DC 20506 Dear Dr.