The story of how the Enterprise was almost named the Constitution before Trekkies suggested the former is widely published, but is there any more information regarding proposed titles for the other orbiters?
A two stage program to test the linear aerospike concept, the first test bed proved the basic concept, the second test bed explored the use of thrust vectoring.
Linear test bed. Volume 1: Test bed no. 1. (Aerospike test bed with segmented combustor)...
A design by North American/Rockwell for the same contract as the TRW 'Solar Electric Multi Mission Spacecraft'. Unlike that vehicle, which was intended for use for a variety of missions, this spacecraft was optimised for untargeted asteroid belt exploration, though with it's particle and fields...
1970
cold war
deep space probes
early 1970s
hughes aircraft company
hughes research labs
ion thruster
jet propulsion laboratory
nasa
north american rockwell
solar-powered
space age
space probes
space race
united states
vietnam war
Proposed design for a Multi-Mission bus using ion engines for propulsion. Suggested missions included an untargeted asteroid belt flyby, a targeted asteroid belt flyby, a Jupiter flyby (With or without use of gravity assist to reach an out-of-ecliptic orbit following the flyby.) and a...
1970
cold war
deep space probes
early 1970s
ion thruster
jet propulsion laboratory
nasa
nuclear power
solar-powered
space age
space probes
space race
trw
united states
The Dawn spacecraft continues to orbit the asteroid Ceres after a successful mapping mission to the asteroid Vesta. These two asteroids are the largest ones in the asteroid belt. There is a mysterious array of bright spots on Ceres (see image) which have yet to be explained. Anyone have a clue...
On July 14th the New Horizons spacecraft will flyby Pluto to give us our first good look at this far off world.
For more information go to New Horizons.com -SP
http://nextbigfuture.com/2015/03/nasa-vision-of-spacecraft-and-base-for.html
NASA examined revolutionary aerospace systems concepts for human space exploration of the solar system beyond Mars orbit and identified critical technology requirements for the realization of these systems concepts...
Issue #01 of US Launch Vehicle Projects has just come out:
http://www.aerospaceprojectsreview.com/blog/?p=2103
Pre-Saturn Phase III Vehicles: 1958 concept for clustered Atlas boosters
Boeing “Big Onion”: an SSTO to launch SPS
Northrop TAV: an in-flight propellant transfer spaceplane
Martin...
Requirements and capabilities for planetary missions. Volume 2: Mars polar orbiter penetrator 1981
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19760014153.pdf
For details on the penetrators planned to be used see the thread "Hughes/Sandia - Pioneer Mars Orbiter (1974)"...
From the journal of superscience, take with the appropriate grain of salt:
"NASA Engineers Propose Combining a Rail Gun and a Scramjet to Fire Spacecraft Into Orbit"
By Rena Marie Pacella Posted December 17, 2010
Source...
One of the more interesting results of the various NASA space engineering projects.
Designed by a team from the University of Auburn, this Saturn V launched probe, which would have been launched sometime between 1975 -1980 had it been built.
Upon arrival at Jupiter (After an 800-900 day trip...
As per this item today (10-Nov-2014), Gizmodo is starting a series of posts "showcasing the work of some of the most noted aerospace artists."
They start today with Attila Héjja (Hejja):
The Hungarian-Born Painter Who Immortalized America's Space Program
by Atilla Nagy, Gizmodo - 10-Nov-2014
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it seems that NASA screw up the Sterilization process on Curiosity rover before Launch
according this Source
http://www.nature.com/news/microbial-stowaways-to-mars-identified-1.15249
Curiosity rover was launch with 377 bacteria strains, 41 of those must survived the Trip and now living on Mars…
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