#british aerospace

Real space project / cancelled

It’s time for some spaceplanes again. 

Here’s HOTOL on a runway somewhere in Australia, being secured by recovery teams after safe return from orbit. HOTOL was single-stage-to-orbit concept craft developed by British Aerospace in the 80s, unfortunately it has never been built.

To learn more about HOTOL, you can visit links below:

http://www.astronautix.com/h/hotol.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOTOL

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