FUTURE OF SCRAMJET ENGINES,NASP (Seminar Hyperplanes)

Artist view of a National Aerospace Plane on a space mission
Diagrammatic representation of all the three views of NASP

After the X-43 tests in 2004, NASA Dryden engineers said that they expected all of their efforts to culminate in the production of a Two-Stage-To-Orbit Crewed Vehicle in about 20 years. The scientists expressed much doubt that there would be a Single Stage to Orbit crewed vehicle like the National Aerospace Plane (NASP) in the foreseeable future, also known as the "Orient Express” that would take off from an ordinary airport runway.