Reusable Launch Vehicle Technology Development and Test Program (1995) / Chapter Skim
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The policy was developed by the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and intended to address the issue of space transportation by assigning NASA the lead-agency responsibility for "technology development and demonstration for next-generation reusable space transpor~i~on systems.~9 The policy further stated that t'NASA,s research shall be focused on technologies to support a decision no later than December 1996 to proceed with a subscale flight demonstration which would prove the concept of SSTO." NASA established the Reusable Launch Vehicle (REV)
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. Phase 11 FIGURE I-2 REV Program Phase Descriptions.
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NASA will use three experimental vehicles for testing and technology development, the DC-XA, the X-34, and the X-33. The DC-XA vehicle will be the successor to the Delta Clipper-Exper~mental (DC-X)
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Langley Research Center, where work is being done on a metallic TPS for McDonnell Douglas/Boeing and Lockheed Martin, and super lightweight tank development for Lockheed Martin; the Ames Research Center, where work is being done on a ceramic TPS for Rockwell International and McDonnell Douglas/Boeing; and the Marshall Space Flight Center, working on friction-stir welding for Rockwell International.
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STUDY TASK In the spring of 1995, the NASA Office of Space Access and Technology requested that the NRC undertake a study to examine whether the technology development and test programs planned by the prime contractors and engine companies would, indeed, provide adequate, meaningful data upon which to base a decision in December 1996. The Statement of Task is as follows: The NRC/ASEB [Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board]
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Some committee members then visited NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, for a Boeing on the development and test programs for advanced ceramic TPS material and the information technology for integrated health management. This group also reviewed the Ames analysis program, which incorporates venous TPS tradeoffs in the vehicle design and inspected the available advanced TPS hardware.
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As the committee had requested, the emphasis of the Boeing was on technology development and test programs related to the X-33 decision and indicating the traceability to the eventual SSTO RLV. The prime contractors described their alternative vehicle concepts for the X-33 and REV as well as the associated propulsion systems and TPSs, structural materials, and cryogenic tanks.
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1994. A beefing by the chairman of the Defense Space Launch Modernization Plan presented to the Committee on Space Facilities at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., March 9, 1994.
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