space age

This for Alternate history Story i work on. and i need advice and help on some details. NEXT is Lunar Colonisation Program It reuse the entire Launch rocket and Lunar lander And orbital refuel for second stage for Lunar Trajectory Injection To bring 60 metric tons lander to Lunar surface...

Hey fellas, I'm (planning) on making a video game, set in the late 1950s, where Britain, the USSR and the USA each have their own space programmes, the US having Von Brauns ferry rocket and space lift ops, and the Brits having the BIS', now formed as the British Interplanetary Commission...

The A-12 and the later SR-71 used the NAS-14v2 astro-inertial navigation system (ANS) from the 1960s, which was particularly interesting in the pre-GPS times. The set apparently looked like this...

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/sep/11/star-wars-x-wing-model-rare-found-auction-heritage-auctions "A long-lost model of an X-Wing Fighter that was used in the climactic battle in the original Star Wars film has been put up for auction, with bids starting at US$400,000 (£320,000...

In conjuction with the already rumored "Lunar Hilton", tha famous hotel company envisioned also an orbital facility named "Orbiter Hilton" (https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/hilton-hotel-on-moon-scn-cmd/index.html): With its design clearly derived by the McDonnell-Douglas MORL (Manned...

As the US looks to go back to the Moon with Artemis my question here is, what might have been feasible in the 1970s to keep the US sending manned expeditions to the Moon? Clearly, the main obstacle was a political one. With no Soviet manned lunar programme once the US had got to the Moon first...

New video from NASA to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the mission. View: https://youtu.be/XhvliTtzQXY

I recently bought a NIB copy of the Revell "Laser Battle Stations" model kit from 1984. There were a number of other kits released at the same time that all have connections to reports and concepts (see images) but these "laser battle stations" are a bit hard to place. They appear to be modeled...

View: https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroFuturism/comments/z8frvx/what_happened_to_hiltons_hotel_on_the_moon/ https://mascola.com/insights/lunar-hilton-luxury-hotel-advertising/ http://www.spacefuture.com/archive/hotels_in_space.shtml...

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

I'm stunned to find out that, unless several searches failed to work properly, there is no thread for the Martin "EGRESS" (EMERGENCY GLOBAL RESCUE, ESCAPE, AND SURVIVAL SYSTEM) capsule. This was a modification of the ejection capsule used on the B-58... fitted with a heat shield, de-orbit motor...

https://vk.com/wall914417_13541 http://epizodyspace.ru/bibl/glushko/izbran-rab-glushko/3/01.html

New vintage book from my PDF collection of Dr. Dandridge Cole. Exploring the Secrets of Space: Astronautics for the Layman 1963 Prentice-Hall. This black and white book is a prologue to a colored tome Beyond Tomorrow. Above - unknown illustrations. Almost unknown illustrations - the view from...

Tomy is crowdfunding a 20-pound lighted 1/350-scale die-cast replica of the starship Enterprise, NCC-1701. The goal is to get 5,000 backers at $599 each. That sounds like a lot, but when Quantum Mechanics did some 1/350 lighted ships a decade-ish ago, they were in the area of five or ten grand...

View: https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroFuturism/comments/p2mhzo/a_soviet_space_elevator_tekhnika_molodezhi_1970/

According to Wikipedia there was an attempt to revive the project in the late 2000s (from 2006 onwards, and possibly into the early 2010s) in co-operation with the Russians. Initially at least this version of the plan included an air launch element. It appears to have been at this time when the...

As said in the tin. I've worked on this huge thing since February 2008 when I joined, first, NASAspaceflight.com and AH.com. Took me a decade and 2019 to get a stronger focus and backstory. Now the POD is clearer. In August 1967 at a crucial juncture in NASA history the last Lunar Orbiter...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN7ifFam1Fk View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lR-KyObLt0 View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drDPFs6j3U0

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-56412867 Once again, yet another great gone. Rest In Peace :( View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLkkPzJzMPY View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIbIiFRpL5Y View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpBIUb1AQG8 View...

In an alternate world where the USA avoided the trauma of Vietnam and LBJ won a second term the Apollo moon and earth orbit programmes continued into the 70s as originally planned. Assuming that a similarly pro Apollo President had succeeded Johnson in 1973 and the US economy continued to...