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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.
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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.
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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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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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