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Saenger 1 Spaceplane
Credit - Mark Lindroos
Class: Manned. Type: Spaceplane. Destination: Maximum Payload Orbit. Nation: Germany. Manufacturer: Saenger.

MBB design for a vertical-launch, horizontal landing two-stage winged launch vehicle. The upper stage had a configuration similar to the later US shuttle, with a seventy-degree double-delta wing, except with wingtip fins as on Dyna-Soar. The design effort was funded from 1962-1969 with DM 16.5 million of German government funds.

Crew Size: 2.

Bibliography:

  • Jenkins, Dennis R,, Space Shuttle: The History of the National Space Transportation System : The First 100 Missions, Third edition, Voyageur Press, 2001.
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