SAN DIEGO (AP) - Robert Dale Reed, an aeronautics researcher who pioneered the "Lifting Body" and remotely piloted aircraft programs with NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in the 1960s and 1970s, has died. He was 75. Reed died Friday due to complications of cancer, NASA said in a statement Monday. Reed began his career with NASA in 1953. The "Lifting Body" program - his most recognized achievement - grew out of Reed's belief that a wingless craft could serve as an orbiting vehicle, re-enter Earth's atmosphere and land safely. Reed's research eventually provided guidance to the design of the Space...
