{"id":1316,"date":"2013-03-13T05:49:30","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T09:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graymanwrites.com\/blog\/?p=1316"},"modified":"2013-03-13T05:50:55","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T09:50:55","slug":"x-38-crew-return-vehicle-test-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/x-38-crew-return-vehicle-test-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"X-38 ‘Crew Return Vehicle’ Test Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fifteen years ago yesterday — March 12, 1998 — NASA conducted the first “drop test” of the X-38 at the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards AFB.<\/p>\n

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\n(The X-38 drops away from NASA’s B-52. NASA image from Wikimedia Commons.)<\/em><\/p>\n

The X-38 program<\/a> developed a series of prototype “lifeboats” for the International Space Station. The Crew Return Vehicle (CRV) would have been<\/p>\n

an emergency vehicle to return up to seven International Space Station (ISS) crewmembers to Earth. It [would] be carried to the space station in the cargo bay of a space shuttle and attached to a docking port. If an emergency arose that forced the ISS crew to leave the space station, the CRV would be undocked and – after a deorbit engine burn – the vehicle would return to Earth much like a space shuttle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The X-38 program was cancelled in 2002.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fifteen years ago yesterday — March 12, 1998 — NASA conducted the first “drop test” of the X-38 at the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards AFB. (The X-38 drops away from NASA’s B-52. NASA image from Wikimedia Commons.) The X-38 program developed a series of prototype “lifeboats” for the \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[16,37,11],"class_list":["post-1316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","tag-edwards","tag-nasa","tag-space-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1319,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions\/1319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}