Secret Space Projects

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Unbuilt and cancelled rocket and spacecraft projects. Not for current or historic produced designs.
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Black ZEUS: The top secret shuttle mission that never flew
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Flyaway
Flyaway
Michel Van
Gamma Centaur aka Centaur Junior
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blackstar
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Graham1973
20/30Ghz Communications Test Satellite (1981)
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magnus_z
Solar engine by Rocketdyne
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magnus_z
magnus_z
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Soviet future spaceships from the 1950s (Photon spaceships, Ionosphereplane, etc
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antigravite
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Antonio
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MOVED: Original US space program without the moon goal.
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Antonio
Antonio
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Bristol/Westcott Delta3
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Michel Van
Michel Van
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Unknown Martin Spacecraft Concept
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hesham
NASA NERV
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Grumman / Space Shuttle project concept art
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antigravite
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Graham1973
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Delta Advanced Re-useable Transport (DART) - 1991
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SAustin16
SAustin16
miraglia
Atlas Moon Rocket
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Michel Van
Michel Van
hesham
Tremulis space designs
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hesham
hesham
Michel Van
Atlas Vega Mock Up
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British in space in 1959!
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CNH
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Flyaway
DARPA to Transfer Advanced Space Debris Telescope to Air Force
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Flyaway
Flyaway
Triton
NASA Commercial Resupply Services 2 (CRS-2)
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Grey Havoc
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Vulcan satellite launch vehicle?
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XP67_Moonbat
XP67_Moonbat
Flyaway
Russia To Publish Catalog Disclosing US Military Satellites
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Desert Dawn
Desert Dawn
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Chineese Mach 5 and Mach 8 spaceplanes for space tourism projects
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antigravite
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Graham1973
Garrett (AI-Research) - Lunar Shelter (1967)
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Graham1973
Graham1973
Graham1973
Goodyear - Stay Time Exension Module (1965)
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Graham1973
Graham1973
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World Spacecraft Digest
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Antonio
Antonio
Orionblamblam
NERVA, Aerojet, 1962
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sferrin
sferrin
hesham
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Japanese Nippon H2-A satellite launcher concepts
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Soviet rocket
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Michel Van
Michel Van
Grey Havoc
Proving Ground / Prospector (Taiwan-US Lunar lander)
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blackstar
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Grey Havoc
Bell Zero-G Belt (1962)
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RAP
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Philip Bono, By Gemini to Mars, and more...
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starviking
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Iran manned space capsule program
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Michel Van
Michel Van
Flyaway
NRO discloses previously unannounced SpaceX launch contract
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blackstar
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Sundog
Boeing and SpaceX win the new NASA contract for putting humans in space.
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fredymac
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flateric
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Northrop Grumman 2GRLV
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antigravite
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Michel Van
Lunarbike for Apollo mission
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RAP
RAP
RAP
General Electric Apollo Design
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bigvlada
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Flyaway
The NRO & Operation Desert Storm
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blackstar
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Orbital ATK Satellite Life Extension
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Byeman
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bobbymike
Photonic Propulsion
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bobbymike
bobbymike
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Laser Generated Blackhole Drive
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KJ_Lesnick
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miraglia
German rockets A-12 and A-13 projects are real or fiction?
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Michel Van
Michel Van
Flyaway
White House requests $1.2 billion for new rocket in Air Force budget
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Flyaway
Flyaway
hesham
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NASA SMV
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XP67_Moonbat
XP67_Moonbat
Grey Havoc
China Announces Plan to Make First Landing on Far Side of Moon in 2018 (Reuters)
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XP67_Moonbat
XP67_Moonbat
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DARPA's RASCAL (Responsive Access, Small Cargo, Affordable Launch) programme
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XP67_Moonbat
XP67_Moonbat
Michel Van
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NAA Mars Exploration Module
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Orionblamblam
Orionblamblam
Michel Van
Mercury capsule contractor proposals
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Barrington Bond
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Grey Havoc
Turkish 2019 Indigenous Satellite project
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Grey Havoc
Grey Havoc
Graham1973
Unidentified Lifting Body Space Shuttle (1962/63)
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XP67_Moonbat
XP67_Moonbat
Grey Havoc
Arktika satellite system
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Grey Havoc
Grey Havoc
magnus_z
Russian Mars
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Grey Havoc
Grey Havoc
sferrin
Orbital X-42 reusable upper stage.
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flateric
flateric
Bill S
Unidentified LTV Space Concepts
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Bill S
Bill S
sferrin
Moscow Confirms Suspension of Russian-Ukrainian 'Dnepr' Rocket Launches
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Grey Havoc
LightSail-1 (experimental cubesat)
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FighterJock
FighterJock
Orionblamblam
X-20 Dyna Soar drawings for sale
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Richard9038
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flateric
1966 GD/Convair VL-3A LIFTING ENTRY VEHICLE
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Boxman
Boxman
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LauncherOne
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Gridlock
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ALTAIR Semi-Reusable Launcher for Small Satellites
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blackstar
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bucky74
Proposed Space Shuttle Names
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Abraham Gubler
Abraham Gubler
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projects
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pavel
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RAP
Boeing-Lockheed Space Shuttle Concept?
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Steve Pace
Steve Pace
magnus_z
Aerojet-General Moon lander 1961
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FighterJock
FighterJock
hesham
What was this Spacecraft ?
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merriman
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bobbymike
Aerojet Rocketdyne Leonidas Small Launch Vehicle
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blackstar
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Why not Apollo hardware for MOL?
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blackstar
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archipeppe
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NASA Mini-Shuttle
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Dynoman
Dynoman
hesham
ID this Martin Project
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hesham
hesham
hesham
NASA Planning Mars Expedition of 1963
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hesham
hesham
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Bristol Siddeley Air Breathing Booster
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hesham
hesham
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North American Aviation STX-15
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Grey Havoc
Rockwell Integrated Space Plan (1989)
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Grey Havoc
Grey Havoc
Graham1973
TRW - Solar Electric Multi Mission Spacecraft (1970)
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Michel Van
Michel Van
Flyaway
DLR Renews Plan For Suborbital Space Plane
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Hobbes
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Mr London 24/7
AFRL BladeRunner
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blackstar
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flateric
NII-1 MOM 'AeroSpace Ship' project (USSR, 1966)
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hesham
hesham
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Mitsubishi H-II Orbiting Plane (HOPE)
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Grey Havoc
Grey Havoc
XP67_Moonbat
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Energia-M Drawings
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Michel Van
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Cape Canaveral Launch Complexes
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Michel Van
Michel Van
Johnbr
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Airbus developing reusable space rocket launcher
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overscan (PaulMM)
overscan (PaulMM)
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Convair F-102A as Space Launch Vehicle
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visvirtusvoluntas
visvirtusvoluntas
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NASA LDSD ("ballute")
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Byeman
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SDI : Nuclear bomb pumped X-Ray Laser
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TomS
TomS
sferrin
Lots of old shuttle pictures.
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XP67_Moonbat
XP67_Moonbat
Johnbr
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Japans new Rocket
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hesham
Flights on Mars
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hesham
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RAP
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Kaman Space Helicopter?
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sferrin
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PLATO Platform Orbiter
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PMN1
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shivering
Yuanzheng-1 Chinese spaceplane
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seruriermarshal
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NASA :successful test of Mars landing technologies
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hesham
hesham
bobbymike
NASA vision of the spacecraft and base for a human mission to Callisto
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blackstar
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FutureSpaceTourist
Excalibur Almaz commercial space station
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bobbymike
Paper - Comparison of Space Propulsion Methods for Manned Mission to Mars
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bobbymike
bobbymike
Skybolt
Aerojet Cosmos launcher: 1960-61 plug nozzle recoverable "Saturn"
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Skybolt
Skybolt
athpilot
Boeing Lunar Ferry
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athpilot
athpilot
Triton
Lockheed Astrotug
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Triton
Triton
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Soviet Union Manned Lunar Program...
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hesham
hesham
Matej
Thales Alenia Space IXV (Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle)
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Grey Havoc
Grey Havoc
hesham
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British Smith-Ross Manned Rocket to the Space (1946)
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hesham
hesham
hesham
Bolkow Old Satellite Project
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hesham
hesham
miraglia
Rosen's NOVA
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miraglia
miraglia
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