apollo program

  1. Michel Van

    S-IVB as reusable SSTO

    Around end 1960's Douglas proposed several projects for reuse of S-IVB Stage the final Idea was a reusable S-IVB with Aerospike engine to use as upperstage on Saturn launcher or as SSTO got some one more info (like payload) on that proposal ? thanks in advance
    • Michel Van
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    • apollo program cold war douglas aircraft company douglas aircraft company missile & space division douglas missile & space division late 1960s nasa single-stage-to-orbit space age space race ssto united states
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  2. M

    Project Able ( Apollo + Sun Mirror )

    Hi everybody A sun-mirror to light up a battlefield ! http://www.orbiterwiki.org/wiki/Project_Apollo_for_Orbiter http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19790076663_1979076663.pdf http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19790076664_1979076664.pdf Many greetings
    • moin1900
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    • apollo applications program apollo program cold war nasa united states
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  3. Skybolt

    Other Apollo Projects: What Should Have Been

    In case you asked yourself what the hell was the GD/Astro Apollo proposal, it is the Design IV in the drawing. Design III is Martin's. BTW, anyone interested in highly detailed early Apollo proposals drawings ?
    • Skybolt
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    • apollo applications program apollo program apollo x cold war nasa space age space race united states
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  4. Skybolt

    By solids to the Moon: all-solid JPL Nova proposal

    Just after President Kennedy May 1961 call for a lunar landing before the end of the decade, there was a lot of proposals for boosters capable to take a manned lander to the Moon: ever growing Saturns, and Novas built with the most diverse combination of stages, liquid, solid and nuclear. One of...
    • Skybolt
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    • apollo program cold war jet propulsion laboratory nasa space age space race united states
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  5. Orionblamblam

    Reusable, winged versions of the Saturn V first stage

    Issue Volume 1 Number 2 of the new Electronic Aerospace Projects Review has just been finished. The main article, at about 60 pages, covers a wide variety of designs - spanning more than a dozen years - for winged S-IC flyback boosters. Very early Boeing and North American designs to lower the...
    • Orionblamblam
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    • apollo program cold war flyback boosters nasa reusable launch vehicle space age space race united states
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  6. boxkite

    Aero Spacelines and the "Saro Princess"

    At the beginning of 1964 an US scrap merchant has been bought the three Saro Princess flying-boats. Around this time Aero Spacelines planned to equip them with landing gear, bigger fuselage and jet engines to transport the largest parts of the Saturn rockets from inside USA to the launch pads...
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