Synopsis:

The New Mexico Museum of Space History recently held an anniversary event to celebrate a team of designers, engineers and managers who designed, built and flew a unique rocket that most people outside the space community never heard of.

A major, long-term goal in aerospace is to make access to space as routine as flying in a commercial airplane today. On August 18th, 1993, the Delta Clipper Experimental rocket, DC-X for short, took a step in that direction with its first test flight. Like many experimental vehicles, it didn't get all the way to its goal, but the data it produced over the course of a dozen flights influences innovation in rocketry to this day.

This is a description of the Delta Clipper by its Program Manager Bill Gaubatz in our archival highlight from a 1992 interview. That the interview could pass for cutting edge science news in today's media, attests to the vision and pioneering spirit of the DC-X team.
Running time 3:50 minutes.

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