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SpaceRef - Exploration and Missions - Human Missions - X-38


  • ESA: X-38 Crew Return Vehicle - A description of the X-38 crew vehicle planned for use on the International Space Station. Includes a description of ESA's role in the development and testing of this vehicle.

  • NASA Dryden X-38 Crew Return Vehicle Site - NASA's X-38 technology demonstrator for the Crew Return Vehicle may become the first new human spacecraft to travel to and from orbit in the past two decades, a spacecraft developed at a fraction of the cost of past human space vehicles.

  • NASA X-38: Crew Return Vehicle - During the first years of the International Space Station's life on orbit, a Russian Soyuz capsule will always be present to provide crewmembers with the means to evacuate the station quickly. But work is well under way on development of the new emergency crew return lifeboat for the International Space Station.


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