X-33 Lockheed-Martin: Our X-33 Lockheed-Martin model spacecraft is modeled and handcrafted using various high-quality grade materials by our renowned master craftsmen. Our X-33 Lockheed-Martin model spacecraft is uniquely designed and manufactured using the latest innovations and techniques applied in the over-all manufacturing and operation process procedures. The model spacecraft's parts including the launch vehicle and payloads are extremely accurate and precise based on the original. It will fascinate anyone who gazes at it for its remarkable and exceptional quality. The X-33 Lockheed-Martin model spacecraft comes with an extremely durable base stand marked with the spacecraft's official insignia. X-33 Lockheed-Martin History: VentureStar was Lockheed Martin's proposed design for a single-stage-to-orbit reusable launch system. The X-33 was a technology demonstrator for NASA's "next-generation" of space launch vehicle named Venture Star. On July 2, 1996, NASA selected Lockheed Martin Skunk Works of Palmdale, California, to design, build, and test the X-33 experimental vehicle for the RLV program. On March of 1999, the X-33 was scheduled to complete its first flight from Edwards Air Force Base, CA. It made about fifteen flights during a ten-month period and reach speeds of fifteen times that of sound at altitudes of up to fifty miles. The X-33 would flight test a range of technologies that NASA believed it needed for single-stage-to-orbit reusable launch vehicles (SSTO RLVs), such as metallic thermal protection systems, composite cryogenic fuel tanks for liquid hydrogen, the aerospike engine, autonomous (unmanned) flight control, rapid flight turn-around times through streamlined operations, and its lifting body aerodynamics. Test flights involve: (1) launching the X-33 from a vertical position like a conventional space launch vehicle—this reduces the weight of the landing gear and wheels to only that required to support an unfueled vehicle (baseline dry weight of vehicle is approximately 29,500 kg (65,000 lb) and fueled weight of X-33 is approximately 123,800 kg (273,000 lb)); (2) accelerating the vehicle to top speeds of Mach 15 (15 times the speed of sound or approximately 18,000 km/hr (11,000 mph) and reaching high altitudes up to approximately 75,800 m (250,000 ft); (3) shutting down the engines; gliding over long distances up to 1,530 km (950 mi) downrange of the launch site followed by conducting terminal area energy maneuvers to reduce speed and altitude; and (4) landing like a conventional airplane. This model has measurements of: Span: 18 1/4" Len: 16 5/8" and Scale: 1/50