921-3 is often used for the Chinese spaceplane program.[not verified in body] The Chinese National Manned Space Program was given the designation of...

A spaceplane is a vehicle that can fly and glide as an aircraft in Earth's atmosphere and function as a spacecraft in outer space. To do so, spaceplanes...

– via Twitter. "氢China launches experimental spaceplane". NASASpaceflight.com. 3 September 2020. Retrieved 4 September 2020. "China's mystery experimental...

scientist, returned to China from the United States. In 1956, Qian submitted a proposal for the development of China's missile program, which was approved...

Shenlong (simplified Chinese: 神龙; traditional Chinese: 神龍; pinyin: shén lóng; lit. 'divine dragon') is a Chinese reusable robotic spaceplane currently in development...

Trevithick, Joseph (18 October 2021). "China's Claim That Its Fractional Orbital Bombardment System Was A Spaceplane Test Doesn't Add Up (Updated)". The...

space by a launch vehicle, re-enters Earth's atmosphere, and lands as a spaceplane. The X-37 is operated by the Department of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities...

process it became the first spaceplane to land autonomously. The Shuguang program was the first Chinese crewed space program with plans to launch two astronauts...

was a series of concept designs for a reusable single-stage-to-orbit spaceplane by the British company Reaction Engines Limited, using SABRE, a combined-cycle...

to build and test an XS-1 spacecraft (now called the Experimental Spaceplane program). At the time, test flights were scheduled to start no earlier than...

The Tiangong program (Chinese: 天宫空间站工程; pinyin: Tiāngōng kōngjiānzhàn gōngchéng) is China's space program to create a modular space station, comparable...

at least 120,000 personnel.: 259  It controls China's nuclear and conventional strategic missiles. China's total nuclear arsenal size is estimated to be...

grid fins, and other flight control surfaces. By modifying their shape, spaceplanes can leverage aviation mechanics to aid in its recovery, such as gliding...

Dream Chaser is an American reusable lifting-body spaceplane developed by Sierra Space. Originally intended as a crewed vehicle, the Dream Chaser Space...

crewed mission was in 2003). Except for the Space Shuttle and the Buran spaceplane of the Soviet Union, the latter of which only ever had one uncrewed test...

It is China's first long-term space station, part of the Tiangong program and the core of the "Third Step" of the China Manned Space Program; it has...

part of the Interim HOTOL program. It remains unbuilt. AKS Intended to carry the Tupolev OOS air-launch-to-orbit spaceplane; a twin-fuselage design consisting...

is to build China's own space station, Tiangong. The first module of Tiangong, the Tianhe core module, was launched into orbit by China's most powerful...

Boeing X-37B, an American unmanned vertical-takeoff, horizontal-landing spaceplane. It was launched to a highly elliptical high Earth orbit aboard a Falcon...

proposed C-21 spaceplane or its successor the Explorer. It would be a TSTSO (Two-Stage to SubOrbit) launch platform. The Explorer spaceplane is a suborbital...

September 2017). "China's COMAC says signs 130 orders for C919 passenger jet". reuters. Archived from the original on 23 September 2017. "China's ICBC Financial...

Spaceplane". www.darpa.mil. Retrieved February 25, 2019. Foust, Jeff (January 22, 2020). "Boeing drops out of DARPA Experimental Spaceplane program"...

HOPE (H-II Orbiting Plane) was a Japanese experimental spaceplane project designed by a partnership between NASDA and NAL (both now part of JAXA), started...

Hermes was a proposed spaceplane designed by the French Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES) in 1975, and later by the European Space Agency (ESA)...

great cost, though never used. After the open DynaSoar USAF program from 1957 to 1963, spaceplanes went black (became highly classified). In the mid-1960s...

suborbital horizontal-takeoff, horizontal-landing (HTHL), rocket-powered spaceplane that was under development by the California-based company XCOR Aerospace...

The Airbus Defence and Space Spaceplane, also called EADS Astrium TBN according to some sources, is a suborbital spaceplane concept for carrying space tourists...

space". edition.cnn. Grush, Lauren (December 13, 2018). "Virgin Galactic's spaceplane finally makes it to space for the first time". The Verge. Retrieved December...

air-launched spaceplane concept Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-105 – Soviet spaceplane test programme Space Shuttle program - American spaceplane Tupolev OOS -...

carried into space by Shenzhou 5 becoming China's first Taikonaut. The spacecraft has gone on to fly crews to China's Tiangong-1 and Tiangong-2 space labs...