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Experimental Spaceplanes
Experimental Spaceplanes is explored here through 16 archived missions, from X-15 Flight 62 through Buran 1K1, with the program’s spacecraft, people, milestones, and source-backed history connected along the way.
- Missions
- 16
- People
- 14
- Vehicles
- 4
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Experimental Spaceplanes timeline
15 flights. One complete program record.
Follow every archived flight from the earliest development test through the program’s latest flown mission, with its defining milestones and mission hardware connected along the way.
Every Experimental Spaceplanes program record
All 16 flown and non-flight archive records arranged chronologically.
Launch corridor
15 flights and tests compressed into 1 expandable arc · 1 unflown concept parked off the flight path.
- Arc 01Ignition1962–1988 · 15 records
Flight arc 01IgnitionX-15 Flight 62 → Buran 1K11962–1988 · 15 records1962–1988
15 records
July 17, 1962X-15 Flight 62001
January 17, 1963X-15 Flight 77002
June 27, 1963X-15 Flight 87003
July 19, 1963X-15 Flight 90004
August 22, 1963X-15 Flight 91005
June 29, 1965X-15 Flight 138006
August 10, 1965X-15 Flight 143007
September 28, 1965X-15 Flight 150008
October 14, 1965X-15 Flight 153009
November 1, 1966X-15 Flight 174010
October 17, 1967X-15 Flight 190011
November 15, 1967X-15 Flight 191012
August 21, 1968X-15 Flight 197013
First flight November 10, 1985Buran OK-GLI Atmospheric Flight-Test Program014
November 15, 1988Buran 1K1015
