Editing Lifting body (section)

==Popular culture==
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[[File:Facetmobile.png|thumb| [[Wainfan Facetmobile FMX-4]] homebuilt lifting-body aircraft, photographed from above in flight ]]
Lifting bodies have appeared in some [[science fiction]] works, including the movie ''[[Marooned (1969 film)|Marooned]]'', and as John Crichton's spacecraft Farscape-1 in the TV series ''[[Farscape]]''. The [[Discovery Channel]] TV series conjectured using lifting bodies to deliver a probe to a distant earth-like planet in the animated ''[[Alien Planet]].'' [[Gerry Anderson]]'s 1969 ''[[Doppelgänger (1969 film)|Doppelgänger]]'' used a [[VTOL]] lifting body lander / ascender to visit an Earth-like planet, only to crash in both attempts. His series [[UFO (British TV series)|UFO]] featured a lifting body craft visually similar to the M2-F2 for orbital operations ("The Man Who Came Back"). In the ''[[Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space]]'' computer game, a modified [[Martin Marietta X-24A|X-24A]] becomes an alternative lunar capable spacecraft that the player can choose over the [[Project Gemini|Gemini]] or [[Apollo program|Apollo]] capsule.

The 1970s [[television program]] ''[[The Six Million Dollar Man]]'' used footage of a lifting body aircraft, culled from actual NASA exercises, in the show's [[title sequence]].  The scenes included an HL-10's separation from its carrier plane—a modified B-52—and an M2-F2 piloted by [[Bruce Peterson]], crashing and tumbling violently along the Edwards dry lakebed runway. The cause of the crash was attributed to the onset of ''[[Dutch roll]]'' stemming from control instability as induced by flow separation.{{citation needed|date=April 2015}}

The episode "The Deadly Replay" (season 2 episode 8 aired 9/22/1974) features the HL-10 as a prop of the story.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Deadly Replay |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0702102/ |publisher=IMDb.com, Inc. |access-date=October 22, 2021}}</ref>