X-33 Venture Star Advanced Technology DemonstratorThis is an artist's conception of the proposed NASA/Lockheed Martin Single-Stage-To-Orbit (SSTO) Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) docking with the International...A radio-controlled model aircraft, acting as a miniature mothership, carries aloft a model of the X-33.An artist's conception of the half scale X-33 demonstrator flying over the southwestern desert.An artist's conception showing the relative sizes of the X-33 (left) and the proposed operational VentureStar.The X-33 model about to touchdown on a lakebed.This is an artist's conception of the NASA/Lockheed Martin Single-Stage-To-Orbit (SSTO) Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) releasing a satellite into orbit...This is an artist's conception of the NASA/Lockheed Martin Single-Stage-To-Orbit (SSTO) Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) in orbit high above the...This is an artist's conception of the VentureStar single-stage-to orbit Reuseable Launch Vehicle (RLV) on its launch pad, ready for...This artist's rendering depicts the three designs submitted for the X-33 proposal for a technology demonstrator of a Single-Stage-To-Orbit (SSTO)...Another artist's conception of the X-33, this time after engine shutdown.This is an artist's conception of the NASA/Lockheed Martin Single-Stage-To-Orbit (SSTO) Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) releasing a satellite into orbit...A view of the launch pad built for the X-33.Another artist's conception of the X-33, this time after engine shutdown.This is an artist's conception of the NASA/Lockheed Martin X-33 on the back of a modified 747 airliner.An overall view of the launch pad built for the X-33.An artist's conception of the X-33 in flight, with the aerospike engine firing.This artist's rendering depicts the Rockwell International X-33 technology demonstrator.This artist's rendering depicts the McDonnell Douglas X-33 proposal.This artist's rendering depicts the Lockheed Martin X-33.This artist's rendering depicts the NASA/Lockheed Martin X-33 technology demonstrator for a Single-Stage-To-Orbit (SSTO) Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) at high...Steve Ishmael flies a simulation of the X-33 Advanced Technology Demonstrator at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA.X-33 program engineers at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA, monitor a flight simulation of the X-33 Advanced Technology...In-flight photo of the NASA F-15B used in tests of the X-33 Thermal Protection System (TPS) materials. Flying at subsonic...A close up of the Flight Test Fixture II, mounted on the underside of the F-15B Aerodynamic Flight Facility aircraft....
