Lockheed Martin Space Systems Spaceships Design

[Tuckerfan]

Lots of pretty pictures.

A glimpse into one concept – provided by Lockheed Martin Space Systems near Denver, Colorado – shows a lifting body craft that can be outfitted for lunar as well as Mars operations.

“Basically what we came down on was the side of safety for the crew in making our decision to go with a lifting body,” said Patrick McKenzie, CEV Business Development Manager at Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company.

Additionally, the design of the basic vehicle would allow it to be utilized to support near-term human expeditions to the Moon, as well as Mars in the future, McKenzie told SPACE.com in a phone interview.

Of course, the design looks kinda familiar.

[Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor]

You make too much of this.
Given identical physical laws, identical problems, & identical or similar materials & technologies, engineers will tend to produce similar solutions.

There’s only so many ways to streamline something.

[Tuckerfan]

Well, it’s better looking than Boeing’s design.

[Small_Clanger]

@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor

There’s only so many ways to streamline something.

And made something essentially brick-shaped fly.

Please enter your own search for the “Dynasoar” X-20 here. I would put a link but the only one I found with nice pictures brought up a million pop-ups. Maybe the NASA site has something.