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lifting body

noun as in space shuttle

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This is more like the X-24 Lifting Body from 1963.

Europe has produced one or two re-entry capsule systems in the past, but the IXV's complex "lifting body" is new territory.

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Sierra Nevada had the most novel entry, a winged, lifting body vehicle strongly reminiscent of NASA's space shuttle.

The re-usable "lifting body" will spend about a day in orbit before returning to a landing strip on the US West Coast.

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Designs include traditional capsules, as well as "lifting body" vehicles.

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