X-38 Lifeboat’ Made for Crew of International Space Station

Trivia
on September 8, 2006

The X-38, a prototype “lifeboat” for the crew of the International Space Station that descends under a parafoil, or steerable parachute, made several successful test landings, beginning in the late 1990s, on Rogers Dry Lakebed near NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base (pop. 5,909).

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