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20-Inch Mach 6 CF4 Tunnel

A 0.0175-scale X-38 Experimental Crew Recovery Vehicle model is shown here in the 20-Inch Mach 6 CF4 Tunnel at Langley Research Center. The X-38, though never deployed, was intended to become a lifting body “lifeboat” for the International Space Station. Like the Shuttle Orbiter, it was to enter the Earth’s atmosphere at a high angle of attack - which was being investigated in this research.

 

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Image Number: 1999-L-01079

Date: April 26, 1999

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Taken on April 26, 1999