LOCKHEED MARTIN X-33 SUBORBITAL SPACEPLANE MODEL

Wood and resin model, 1/50 scale, 16 inches long with 18 inch wingspan on wooden base, unknown manufacturer, ca. 1990. Some chips, and tailfins repaired.

The Lockheed Martin X-33 was an unmanned, subs-scale technology demonstrator for the VentureStar orbital spaceplane, planned to be a single-stage-to-orbit reusable launch vehicle. Developed in the 1990s by Lockheed Martin under the US government funded Space Launch Initiative, the program was eventually cancelled in 2001.