https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/ee1a77ff-0c85-4547-8537-b014001f58f6 This 1-minute, 13-second animation created in January of 2013 depicts a novel space access, rocket launching technique called the Towed Glider Air-Launch (TGALS) Concept that was being developed at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center (now Armstrong). The idea was to build a relatively inexpensive, remotely or optionally piloted glider that would be towed to 40,000 feet by a large transport aircraft. The glider would carry a booster rocket capable of launching payloads into low Earth orbit. To learn more about the Towed Glider Air-Launch Concept visit: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/Features/towed_glider_concept.html Mirrored from YouTube: https://youtu.be/fsTtl3MPcak Original channel: NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center Wed, 15 Jul 2026 08:44:45 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/ec5edb1e-3795-4978-be4f-c67e98fbc992.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/ee1a77ff-0c85-4547-8537-b014001f58f6 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.