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some GA weirdo projects from early 80s

New Scott Manley video. Computers Were So Slow Scientists 'Painted' The First Close Up Image Of Mars View: https://youtu.be/nSQlM6yGh7k

https://science.slashdot.org/story/22/11/10/1925239/nasa-launched-an-inflatable-flying-saucer-then-landed-it-in-the-ocean https://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/10/world/polar-satellite-inflatable-heat-shield-launch-scn/index.html...

The latest work of my friend Davide Sivolella an aeronautical engineer and a skilled author, who lives in England. If you want to learn about never realized Space Shuttle versions, this is the right book...

ORIGINAL CAPTION: Digital Rendering of Orbital Reflector. Copyright Trevor Paglen. Courtesy of the Artist and Nevada Museum of Art. https://spacewatch.global/2022/11/spacewatchgl-opinion-american-artist-trevor-paglen-is-questioning-whose-space-belongs-to/

Long overdue for its own topic, previously news & info on it was being posted over in the Rocket Lab Launcher thread: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/small_spacecraft/capstone CAPSTONE is being funded by the Advanced Exploration Systems office of NASA's Exploration Systems...

As NASA has now decided to continue on with this mission, now targeting a launch in late 2023 I thought it should have its own separate thread. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-continues-psyche-asteroid-mission

I think this propulsion concept fell between the cracks at the time the Phase I and II NIAC reports were released in I believe circa 2007. To start with, this is a type of sail which exploits the solar wind, is considered a drag device...like a sailboat in the wind. For this reason I'm not...

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA497223.pdf

The Kistler K-1 is dicussed in some threads here, but I could not find a dedicated thread to it, so... Here is the animation of Bedpost Rocket by Hazegrayart. From the video description: " An early design concept sometimes referred to as the Bedpost Rocket the Kistler K-1 was a two-stage...

From a couple of days ago, via the Space Reddit: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/25-years-of-continuous-robotic-mars-exploration-from-pathfinder-to-perseverance

View: https://twitter.com/ExploreIGO/status/1568673629856043010

Results of ESA studies, looks like they are going to invest more into SSP. View: https://twitter.com/AschbacherJosef/status/1559553177598435328? View: https://youtu.be/8ScTbb-43A4

https://history.nasa.gov/sp4543.pdf This document published in 2009 contains a summary of published books about NASA history and also a guide to the collections and archives found at various NASA locations. Looks potentially useful for researchers.

Star Trek was part of my childhood TV and it was one of those programmes that my parents watched too. Nichelle Nichols famously only stayed on in the role because Dr Martin Luther King told her she should. She was a fine lady whose smile lit up the screen. .

From late Curtis Peebles collection at SDASM Flickr collection

Seems to have quite an early proposed flight date of fiscal year 2026. https://spacenews.com/darpa-moving-forward-with-development-of-nuclear-powered-spacecraft/

NASA's Lunar Outpost Heavy Lift Vehicle: The Comet Rocket <iframe width="560" height="315" src=" View: https://www.youtube.com/embed/uSZtnRJzSBA " title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture"...

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-selects-futuristic-space-technology-concepts-for-early-study/