http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBI1-lS7rmU
"This December 1969 film looks at the candidate space shuttle orbiters using M=20 electron beam flow studies. This gives an interesting look at some of the proposed designs. The only tunnels at NASA Langley Research Center reaching that speed are in...
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)
1974 proposal by Martin-Marietta to modify the Viking lander to allow a Mars surface sample to returned in the early 1980s.
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19740022177_1974022177.pdf
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19750006729_1975006729.pdf...
After the cancellation of Voyager(Mars) in 1967 NASA started up a new series of studies to come up with a spacecraft for the 1973 launch opportunity.
This Martin-Marietta designed soft-lander of 1969 was intended to put the maximum payload weight on the surface of Mars using a mission profile...
1969
1973
cold war
early 1970s
general electric company
jet propulsion laboratory
late 1960s
mars
martin marietta corporation
mcdonnell douglas
nasa
nuclear power
solar-powered
spaceagespace probes
space race
united states
While trying to locate a Douglas proposal to modify an S-IVb into an orbiting bioresearch lab I found this report on the possible use of the Pioneer VI-IX bus for a series of heliocentric orbiting BioSats.
Feasibility study for conducting biological experiments aboard a Pioneer spacecraft...
This specification is intended to set forth the requirements for an unmanned artificial satellite, including the basic rocket. the payload, and the necessary ground and launching equipment.
It is desired that a rocket craft be designed and constructed which will rise to an altitude at which the...
Artist's impression of unmanned Martian reconnaissance vehicle concept press photo found on eBay.
Source:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1958-Boeing-Minute-Man-Missile-Martian-Reconnaissance-vehicle-Press-Photo-/190706754178?pt=Art_Photo_Images&hash=item2c67022282
Boeing Lunar Rover circa 1991
Source:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1991-Boeing-Lunar-Rover-Press-Photo-/190704380245?pt=Art_Photo_Images&hash=item2c66dde955
1991
apollo program
boeing
bush administration (20th century)
cold war
early 1990s
general motors
lunar outpost (sei)
lunar rover
moon
moonbase
nasa
nasa first lunar outpost program
post-cold war
spaceagespace exploration initiative
space race
united states
Artist's impression of NASA Meter Platform concept photograph found on eBay.
Source:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1978-NASA-Artist-Concept-of-Meter-Platform-Press-Photo-39-/200805205802?pt=Art_Photo_Images&hash=item2ec0ec472a
Concept photograph of Grumman Advanced Space Construction Base circa 1978 found on eBay.
URL:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1978-NASA-Artist-Concept-Advanced-Space-Construciton-Base-Press-Photo-59-/190713102269?pt=Art_Photo_Images&hash=item2c6762ffbd
Northrop "Walking" Lunar Vehicle from 1965 concept photo found on eBay.
Source:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Press-Photo-1965-Moon-Lunar-Concept-Vehicle-By-Northrop-Space-Lab-Apollo-Moon-La-/160790921570?pt=Art_Photo_Images&hash=item256fe2c162
I was looking for information on the Lunar Surveying Staff, an instrument proposed for the first series of Apollo flights and stumbled across a report into the proposed lunar surveying instrumentation intended for the lunar flights carried out under Apollo Applications.
What is of interest...
NASAs pre-Apollo program underwent a number of changes as the need to reach the moon before the Russians came to dominate the program.
One concept, that was studied and not proceeded with was mounting a small (100lb) rover to a modified Surveyor. It was to be fitted with small scientific...
1960s
apollo program
bendix aerospace systems division
bendix corporation
cold war
lunar robots
lunar roving vehicle
moon
nasa
nuclear powered vehicles
spaceagespace probes
space race
surveyor program
united states
Westinghouse Moon Shelter concept drawing circa 1965 found on eBay.
URL:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Press-Photo-1965-Concept-Drawing-Moon-Shelter-Astronauts-Moon-Stay-/160738182426?pt=Art_Photo_Images&hash=item256cbe051a
Retronaut.co just put up a beautiful collection of Soviet space propaganda posters from 1958-1963; worth checking out if you are a fan of vintage space art!
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