The first partially reusable orbital spacecraft, winged non-capsule, the Space Shuttle, was launched by the USA on the 20th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight, on April 12, 1981.

Developed by the Advanced Projects Group, a June 1958 report by Avro's Engineering Department described a Space Threshold Vehicle intended to " get a man into the threshold of space and recover him, flying back through the corridor ", where winged flight was possible between maximum altitude that could sustain lift from a winged vehicle and maximum tolerable structural temperature.

The design was a significant one, as it incorporated new rocket technology, and the principle of the lifting body, forshadowing future development of winged spacecraft such as the X-20 Dyna-Soar of the 1960s and the Space Shuttle of the 1970s.

Engle is the only human being to have flown two different types of winged vehicles in space, the X-15 and the Space Shuttle.

But with the CEV changed from a winged spacecraft to an Apollo-like capsule with the Ares I launch vehicle, based on Space Shuttle components.

Hart hand-picked one of his favorite L. A. artists to create a 30-foot hand-made mural of vintage rock show posters and flyers with the signature Wasted Space winged microphone logo stenciled over them.

* Replacing the winged Space Shuttle Orbiter with an uncrewed, expendable cargo pod (" side-mount style " SDV )

* Replacing the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters ( SRBs ) with liquid rockets, including recoverable winged " flyback " boosters

Shuttle-C would have replaced the winged Space Shuttle Orbiter with an expendable cargo module.

While the technical problems seemed to be solvable, the USAF required a winged design ( for cross range ) that led to the Shuttle as we know it today.

The Shuttle is the only winged manned spacecraft to have achieved orbit and land, and the only reusable space vehicle that has ever made multiple flights into orbit ( though winged, the Russian shuttle Buran made only one unmanned spaceflight ).

Another advantage was that a helicopter could land almost anywhere, whereas winged spaceplanes such as the Shuttle had to make it back to the runway.

Ultimately the current design was chosen, using a reusable winged orbiter, reusable solid rocket boosters, and an expendable external tank.

* MAKS proposed Russian system of Buran-like smaller winged reusable orbiter on heavy aircraft carrier

* Spiral cancelled Soviet military system of small winged reusable orbiter on winged hypersonis air-carrier

Despite the setbacks, Chaplin was soon writing a new film script, The Freak, a story of a winged girl found in South America, which he intended as a starring vehicle for his daughter, Victoria Chaplin.

The US Air Force's first operational surface-to-surface missile was the winged, mobile, nuclear-capable MGM-1 Matador, also similar in concept to the V-1.

The demi-lancers and the heavily armored sword-and-pistol reiters were among the types of cavalry whose heyday was in the 16th and 17th centuries, as for the Polish winged hussars, a heavy cavalry force that achieved great success against Swedes, Russians, and Turks.

An early image of winged Daedalus appears on an Etruscan jug of ca 630 BC found at Cerveteri, where a winged figure captioned Taitale appears on one side of the vessel, paired on the other side, uniquely, with Metaia, Medea: " its linking of these two mythical figures is unparalleled ," Robin Lane Fox observes: " The link was probably based on their wondrous, miraculous art.

In Greek mythology, one myth associates Equuleus with the foal Celeris ( meaning " swiftness " or " speed "), who was the offspring or brother of the winged horse Pegasus.

Designed as a single-stage-to-orbit ( SSTO ) reusable winged launch vehicle, it was to be fitted with a unique air-breathing engine, the RB545 called the Swallow, to be developed by Rolls Royce.

During World War II, the silhouetted image of Bellerophon the warrior, mounted on the winged Pegasus, was adopted by the United Kingdom's newly-raised parachute troops in 1941 as their upper sleeve insignia.

The winged sun was an ancient ( 3rd millennium BC ) symbol of Horus, later identified with Ra

Originally a Frankish weapon, the winged spear also was popular with the Vikings.

In the Middle Ages, a winged or lugged war-spear was developed ( see above ), but the later Middle Ages saw the development of specialised types, such as the boar-spear and the bear-spear.

< sup > 21 </ sup > And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

* Genesis 1: 21 And God created great < U > whales </ U >, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

Mercury (; Latin: Mercurius ) was a messenger who wore winged sandals, and a god of trade, merchants, and travel, the son of Maia Maiestas and Jupiter in Roman mythology.

From the beginning, Mercury had essentially the same aspects as Hermes, wearing winged shoes talaria and a winged petasos, and carrying the caduceus, a herald's staff with two entwined snakes that was Apollo's gift to Hermes.

A recumbent winged sphinx carved in oolitic limestone was also discovered in a cave in the uninhabited Sitra Oasis ( between Bahrein and Siwa Oases ), whose provenance appeared to be Persian.

In Persian mythology, Simurgh ( Persian: سيمرغ, Middle Persian: senmurv ) was a winged creature in the basic shape of a peacock, gigantic enough to carry off an elephant or a whale, but also endued with the head of a dog and the claws of a lion.

The winged symbol with a male figure who was formerly regarded by European scholars as Ahura Mazda has been shown to represent the royal xvarənah, the personification of royal power and glory.

Magallan ( 1 species ) was characterised by having winged fruit and Tropaeastrum ( 2 species ) by having no spur while Tropaeolum ( 86 species ) was diagnosed only by the absence of the characteristics of the other two genera.

He was punished by being tied to a winged flaming wheel that was always spinning: first in the sky and then in Tartarus.

A winged booster rocket with the X-43 placed on top, called a " stack ", is launched at speed from a larger carrier plane.

The winged shuttle Orbiter is launched vertically, usually carrying five to seven astronauts ( although eight have been carried and eleven could be accommodated in an emergency ) along with up to of payload into low earth orbit.

Design studies showed the promise of still greater ranges and by 1950 the vehicle had evolved from a ground launched winged V-2, to a range ramjet powered winged V-2, to a air-launched, ramjet-powered, winged V-2 ( actually designated XSSM-A-2 ), to finally a plus rocket boosted ramjet powered cruise missile.

The weapon is designed to be launched from fixed wing or rotary winged aircraft and surface ships against submarine targets.

He is a winged divine horse, usually depicted as white in colour.

Most species have stems erect, somewhat winged, canescent with an indumentum of 2-fid hairs, usually 25 ± 53 cm x 2 – 3 mm in size, and t-shaped trichomes.

A rocket launch for a spaceflight usually starts from a spaceport ( cosmodrome ), which may be equipped with launch complexes and launch pads for vertical rocket launches, and runways for takeoff and landing of carrier airplanes and winged spacecraft.

Anteros, with Eros, was one of a host of winged love gods called Erotes, the ever-youthful winged gods of love, usually depicted as winged boys in the company of Aphrodite or her attendant goddesses.

He is usually described as winged and with a sword sheathed at his belt.

He is usually, however, depicted as a large, fearsome, winged sea-serpent.

Some picture stones and engravings on stone coffins, especially those from the area of modern Sichuan and Yunnan provinces, show two winged immortals playing Liubo on a mountain, usually as part of a larger scene depicting the Queen Mother of the West and various mythical animals.

Mayflies are unique among insects in that they moult one more time after acquiring functional wings ( this is also known as the alate stage ); this last-but-one winged instar usually lives a very short time, often a matter of hours, and is known as a subimago or to fly fishermen as a dun.

The final molt of the naiad is not to the full adult form, but to a winged subimago that physically resembles the adult, but which is usually sexually immature.

The seeds, numerous, are usually winged and wind-dispersed but occasionally also comose and wingless.

He usually takes the form of an armless, winged, bipedal toad with a long, rubbery neck and a face completely covered in tentacles.

The female cones are large and usually woody, 2-60 cm long, with numerous spirally arranged scales, and two winged seeds on each scale.

The third edition of Dungeons & Dragons classifies dragon as a type of creature, simply defined as " a reptilelike creature, usually winged, with magical or unusual abilities ".

In art, she was usually depicted as a young winged girl.

Just under half the listeners were adult, and it was a favorite of WWII U. S Army Air Corps crews ( U. S. Air Force ) when they were stationed in the U. S. Radio premiums offered by the series ( usually marked with his personal symbol of a winged clock with the hands pointing to midnight ) included decoders, and these Code-O-Graphs were used by listeners to decipher encrypted messages previewing the next day's episode, usually broadcast once a week.

The Wingroad followed this recipe closely, being a winged and bespoilered version of the AD Van with usually more powerful engines.

The ends of the hammerbeams are usually decorated with winged angels holding shields ; the curved braces and beams are richly moulded, and the spandrils in the larger examples filled in with tracery, as can be seen in Westminster Hall.

Since that day, every College GameDay has ended with Corso sporting the team's headgear, usually a mascot head ( eventually shifting to official mascot heads provided by the university ) or another headpiece when a team does not have a suited mascot, such as a Trojan-style helmet for USC or the signature winged helmet of Michigan.

In many decks, the person is a winged person / angel, usually female or androgynous, and stands with one foot on water and one foot on land.

The lateral wings of a winged keel are usually of moderate aspect ratio, that uses a nearly horizontal foil, the " wing ", at the bottom to provide additional span.