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The HL-10 was one of the lifting bodies NASA investigated during the 60s, and apparently, it almost flew as a spacecraft.
So what if Reed and von Braun had gotten their way, and the HL-10 got a layer of ablative heat-shield and flew on at least one of the Saturn V rockets in the 70s?