X-30 National Aerospace Plane Model

Fiberglass model, 36 inches long, 17 inch wingspan, on wooden stand with brass plaque reading "36" NASP National Aerospace Plane" and metal label reading "NASA US Gov't Aerospace Education Services Program 3105." Manufactured by Penwal Industries for NASA's AESP Program, ca 1982. Cracks to base of one tail-fin with subsequent chipping to paint.

Oversize model of the X-30 NASP National Aero-Space Plane, a conceptual single-stage-to-orbit spacecraft that never made it to the prototype phase as the program was cancelled in the early 1990s after years of development. It was to be a scram-jet based aircraft, with a maximum speed of Mach 8.