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* The ''[[Macross]]'' franchise is the king of this trope, featuring space planes that are also [[Transforming Mecha]]—but, perhaps surprisingly, they end up spending more time in plane form than mecha form. The earlier models of variable fighters generally required a lift from another craft to reach space but by the time of [[Macross Plus|Project Supernova]] they're capable of reaching orbit from planetary surfaces, even loaded down with an optional extra fold booster.
** [[Macross Frontier|Alto and Michel]] demonstrate the same again when escaping from Gallia IV
* In ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'', the FF-3/FF-S3 Sword Fish is a multi-use interceptor that functions in high altitude and low orbit. It's successor, the [[
== [[Film]] ==
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* The Delta-glider Mk.4 (and many other cool spaceplanes) from ''[[Orbiter]]''. It can do an Earth to Moon and Earth to Mars journey easily.
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*** The XR2 Ravenstar is probably one of the more awesome examples from orbiter, as its basically a Space capable reimagining of the [[Cool Plane/Real Life|SR-71 Blackbird]], and has the gloriously powerful engines to match.
* ''[[Freelancer]]'' space ships seem fully capable of launching and landing, though gameplay always uses docking rings, presumably for traffic control.
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* The Silbervogel design from [[Stupid Jetpack Hitler|Nazi Germany]].
* The British HOTOL (Horizontal Take Off Or Landing) project, cancelled in 1988 after development problems.
* The European Space Agency [https://
* [[wikipedia:Rockwell X-30|X-30]] "National Aerospace Plane", which was never built. A smaller version, the [[wikipedia:NASA X-43|X-43]], reached a maximum speed of nearly Mach 10 using a [[wikipedia:Pegasus rocket|Pegasus missile]] as a booster. Keep in mind that to be a true Space Plane, an aircraft would need to reach somewhere around Mach 25, depending on what altitude you were at, ''without'' a booster.
* The XCOR [[wikipedia:Lynx rocketplane|Lynx]] rocketplane. It will only be able to reach Mach 2 or 3, however, and will be limited to brief, sub-orbital spaceflight only.
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