space age

This link give you the frontpage from the new York times, Frank Poole was reading in Discovery. The Front news talks of missing airliner with 2304 people on board ! the craft label HEP/COMM 11-Z4 got twelve engine and take 2500 passengers and crew of 199 it make 2400 mph in 70000 feet...

Hi, here is a British manned rocket of 1946,intended to launch a man 150 miles into space,designed by R.A. Smith and H.E. Ross and considered an enlarged version of Germany V-2 Missile. FR 12/1958

Poster printed on cardboard featuring many space concepts by Dr. Werner von Braun and Krafft Ehricke circa 1959 found on eBay. Seller's description:

Just finished watching the first episode of Ascension. Wow! George Dyson, call your office! I was wondering how they maintained a 1G acceleration -- all revealed in the last two minutes. David

Vintage NASA film was produced in early 1970's and intended to paint a picture of NASA in 1985. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98pthkn9A6M#t=118

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 **...

Via Slashdot: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/15/us/jack-kinzler-skylabs-savior-dies-at-94.html Jack Kinzler in 1973 with a photo of the thermal shield he created for the Skylab station. Credit United Press International Godspeed.

What is exatly this? An alternative type of MMU for Skylab or Shuttle? Is in a lot of space publications of 70s. P.S- (A Apollo docking probe on the nose)?? :o

Hughes designed geosynchronous satellite optimised to study mesoscale phenomena such as tornados, squall lines and large convective systems. Had the satellite been built, the launch vehicle would have either been a Delta rocket or the Space Shuttle. Severe Storms Observing Satellite...

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...

Advanced Skylab. A great occasion lost. :'( A large space station for the Shuttle, straightway.

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)

I'm re-posting this in a new thread to give this design a more proper identification and to have the thread ready when additional information (and hopefully the drawing) can be made available. I've done a few searches here on Dee Howard and haven't come up with anything. Should there be an...

I thought this would fit in well here: http://www.cpushack.com/space-craft-cpu.html

A video clip with a rather strange sound track showcasing SF helmets from an impressive array of films. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BMgmxkZ0pWI See how many films you can guess without the aid of the end credits, or the creators notes Spot the only actor to appear...

Hi, http://www.bis-space.com/what-we-do/projects/megaroc

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...

"Confirmed: US planned to nuke the moon" Published: 26 November, 2012, 21:13 Source: https://rt.com/usa/news/us-moon-nuclear-project-631/

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...