DC-X Anniversary -- 20 on the 18th

In article ,
says...

The DC-X may yet live again:

Jeff Foust
?@jeff_foust
"DARPA's Pam Melroy: about to kick off Experimental Spaceplane 1 (XS-1)
program, a reusable 1st stage. Industry day early OCtober. #aiaaspace"
https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/statu...77568337166336

The planned suborbital follow on to the DC-X might have been able to
fulfill such a role. And the X-33 even if you replaced the failed composite
tanks with aluminum-lithium could still have served this purpose as a
reusable first stage.

DARPA To Start Reusable Launch Vehicle Program
By Jeff Foust, special to SpaceNews.com | Sep. 12, 2013
http://www.spacenews.com/article/lau...arpa-to-start-
reusable-launch-vehicle-program

Jeff
--
"the perennial claim that hypersonic airbreathing propulsion would
magically make space launch cheaper is nonsense -- LOX is much cheaper
than advanced airbreathing engines, and so are the tanks to put it in
and the extra thrust to carry it." - Henry Spencer