A lifting body is a configuration in which the body itself produces lift.
It is a lifting body, the crew evacuation vehicle used on the Space Station.
The upper stage was designed as a lifting body, and would have carried an 8000-pound (3.6 t) payload to low Earth orbit.
The crew return vehicle was a tiny, four-person lifting body.
The name of the lifting body varies.
The opposite of this is a lifting body, which has no wings, though it may have small stabilizing and control surfaces.
A lifting body is an aircraft body shaped to produce lift.
It featured a lifting body of thick airfoil section between the inner engines.
The ship's lifting body hull crumpled, and the hover car flipped over, spinning out of control.
It was a hundred meters of Stygian lifting body half-buried in rubble.