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Sortie Vehicle

Spacecraft · USA

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Sortie Vehicle
Sortie Vehicle
Cutaway view of Boeing 747-launched Sortie Vehicle, DARPA concept of mid-1980's
Credit: Boeing

American manned spacecraft, launched from atop a Boeing 747. DARPA study of 1982.

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