Concepts of reusable spacecraft

This page is far from complete... preliminarily:

HTHL - Horizontal Take off, Horizontal Landing

SSTO - Single Stage To Orbit
TSTO - Two Stage/with Booster

VTHL - Vertical Take off, Horizontal Landing

SSTO
TSTO

VTVL - Vertical Take off, Vertical Landing

SSTO
TSTO


Only Shuttle and Buran do exist, X-34 and X-33 are being built.
Kelly, Kistler and Rotary Rocket plan to perform the first test flights in the next years (1999/2000). Hermes probably doesn't have a chance - some design work has been done, but it's far too small; Horus is similar, and there doesn't seem to be serious development on it right now; NASP was apparently never intended to be realised; Hotol depends on Alan Bonds hybrid engines, which are patented and secret... Nobody's planning to built DC-Y /DC-I right now.
There are models of Sänger but neither plans nor money to build it.


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