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 The X-24B is seen here landing on Rogers Dry Lake, adjacent to the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California. The X-24B was the last aircraft to fly in Dryden's manned lifting body program.

 The X-24B's design evolved from a family of potential reentry shapes, each with higher lift-to-drag ratios, proposed by the Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory. The X-24B demonstrated that accurate unpowered reentry vehicle landings were operationally feasible top speed achieved by the X-24B was 1,164 mph and the highest altitude it reached was 74,130 feet.