| Contract Awarded to Design reusable XS-1 robot spaceplane that will launch secret spy satellites and space weapons. |
| As an engineer for the aerospace firm starting in the late 1980s, Zubrin worked on projects ranging from a nuclear rocket engine to a spaceplane. |
| The Romanian team will present a mock-up of a new winged spaceplane called Orizont. |
| Whatever its technological virtues, the shuttle will probably be the last attempt to build a multi-purpose spaceplane. |
| Projects like the HOTOL spaceplane have been rare exceptions to British disinterest in human spaceflight. |
| It will not be easy to get from X Prize-class craft like SpaceShipOne to a genuine orbital spaceplane. |
