Edward Henry “Butch” O’Hare was born in St. Louis, Missouri to Edward Joseph and Selma O’Hare on March 13th, 1914. Butch had two sisters, Patricia and Marilyn. In 1927, their parents divorced and their dad moved to Chicago while their mother remained in St. Louis with the children. Butch’s dad was a lawyer for the infamous […]
X-38’s First Free Flight
On March 12th, 1998 the first free-flight of the X-38 (CRV) was accomplished. The X-38 was developed from the Martin Marietta X-24, a lifting body design pioneered by Dryden Flight Research Center in the 1960s and 1970s. The goal of the X-38 project was to provide a means for astronauts on the ISS a way to […]