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Re:The legacy of the North American X-15 by ambicapter on Sunday July 03, 2016 @08:28PM (#12028281)
The X-20 looks like the Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipOne (and SpaceShipTwo).
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Re:The legacy of the North American X-15 by mordant on Sunday July 03, 2016 @11:10PM (#12028719)
You got that precisely backwards, heh.

During the X-Prize launches, I observed that what Burt Rutan had done was to build himself an X-15, and then build himself a B-52 to launch it.

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