Lifting-body

Advanced spaceplane concepts in the 1990s and 2000s used lifting-body designs. Examples include the HL-20 Personnel Launch System (1990) and the Prometheus spaceplane (2010). The Dream Chaser lifting-body spaceplane, an extension of HL-20 technology, was proposed as one of three vehicles to carry American crew members to and from the International Space Station, but eventually was selected as a resupply vehicle instead. In 2015 the European Space AgencyIntermediate eXperimental Vehicle performed the first-ever successful reentry of a lifting body spacecraft.