1971 design for a Jupiter Entry Probe designed to sample the atmosphere of Jupiter down to a level equivalent to 17 times the atmospheric pressure of Earth. The proposed carrier vehicles were, TOPS, which would had the medium gain antenna from the baseline design replaced with one that could...
http://www.space.com/20313-voyager-1-leaves-solar-system.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/9944080/Voyager-1-becomes-first-man-made-object-to-leave-the-Solar-System.html
Voyager I passing the rings of Saturn (Daily Telegraph)
apollo applications program
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manned venus orbiting mission
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Preliminary Mission Study of a Single-Launch Manned Venus Flyby with Extended Apollo Hardware, MSC Internal Note No. 67-FM-25, Jack Funk and James J. Taylor, Advanced Mission Design Branch, Mission Planning and Analysis Division, NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas, February 13, 1967...
In this months Spaceflight, there is an article on Starships of the Future (mostly Daedalus and Icarus) that mentions a suggestion by G H Stein published in Analog, October 1973 called "A Program for Star Flight".
'A full program of exploration was proposed which would utilise a fleet of no...
USAF interplanetary spacecraft concept model using Space Power Unit Reactor (SPUR) found on EBay.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Spacecraft-Concept-Contractor-Desk-Model-NASA-USAF_W0QQitemZ110459822900QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item19b7eb2334
Description from EBay:
cold war
deepspaceprobes
nuclear microreactor
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nuclear rockets
small nuclear reactors
space race
united states
united states air force
usaf
From a researcher at Johns Hopkins U Applied Physics Lab:
http://techdigest.jhuapl.edu/td2703/mcNutt.pdf
Fun facts:
-- 100 year plan for solar system exploration, starting with manned mission to Callisto in 2050 and culminating in a manned mission to Pluto in 2110.
-- multiple in-space...
Advanced Transportation System Studies Technical Area 2(TA-2): Heavy Lift Launch Vehicle Development. Executive Summary; Volume 1 prepared by Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space Company for the Launch Systems Concepts Office of the George C. Marshall Space Fllight Center, July 1995.
Abstract...
Apollo Telescope Mount 01, "Stellar ATM" (Space World magazine, June 1972 (vol I-6-102), "Lunar Module Derivatives for Future Space Missions," pp.58)
Apollo Telescope Mount 02 (Kenneth Gatland, "The Pocket Encyclopedia of Spaceflight in Color: Manned Spacecraft," 1967, p.230)
Apollo...
PARSECS stands for "Program for Astronomical Research and Scientific Experiments Concerning Space". It was a major effort by Boeing starting from the late 1957 to at least 1960 under the Model 854, 855 and 856 designations. Boeing envisioned, with input from preminent scientists and astronomers...
I am looking for information on Project Orion/Daedalus[British name for roughly the same thing]
this was an early nuclear powered spacecraft that used focused nuclear explosions for thrust.
air defense command
british interplanetary society
cold war
deepspaceprobes
general atomics
great britain
nasa
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space weapons
strategic air command
united states
united states air force
better know as
Mission Engineering Study of Electrically Propelled Manned Planetary Vehicles
GE began the study for MSFC in July 1966.
they proposed to uses both nuclear-thermal and nuclear-electric propulsion.
Nuclear ionengine give mission flexibility also for unfavorable opportunities
and...
cold war
deepspaceprobes
general electric
late 1960s
marshall space flight center
nasa
nasa marshall space flight center
nuclear power
nuclear rockets
space race
united states
http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4221/ch4.htm
One alternative, at $3.5 billion per year, eliminated NERVA and stopped production of Saturn V and Apollo spacecraft. This option, however, would maintain a vigorous program in piloted flight, featuring Skylab with three visits as well as six additional...
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