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The "Thingy", a flying sub-tank from "The Three Stooges in Orbit (1962)". Just funny.- (https://clip.cafe/the-three-stooges-in-orbit-1962/oh-no-not-disneyland/)

https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/pilot-astronaut-joe-engle Didn’t see anything on the evening news on TV about this. Sad.

Juno II https://catalog.archives.gov/id/354890124 Vanguard https://catalog.archives.gov/id/354890116 Thor Able [URL unfurl="true"]https://catalog.archives.gov/id/354890110[/URL] Others https://catalog.archives.gov/search?availableOnline=true&page=1&q=Missile...

Michel Van: "One Moment Luminal-A ? was Glusko also in Alumizine propellant ?!" Right, luminal-a is soviet analog of american alumizine. Some theoretical works was conducted at OKB-456 (chief designer V. P. Glushko; today NPO "Energomash"), then conducted some static fire tests. OKB-456 has...

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Gemini Lost and Found View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ycYfc5SRLE

Since we have some fans of Gerry Anderson and Derek Meddings and his Team Here some Tribute to them View: https://youtu.be/zOdjmWw2a5g

I am doing research regarding Martin Marietta Single stage to Orbit vehicle. I have not found much information online and was wondering if anyone had any information. All I have found is the NASA Contractor report. Thank you

News just came over the transom to me. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/bill-anders-apollo-8-astronaut-took-earthrise-photo-dies-plane-crash-w-rcna156149

Available now. https://www.amazon.com/Challenger-Story-Heroism-Disaster-Space/dp/198217661X

Science et Vie - Science and Life - 1957. The cover and pages 38-39 depict our first Soviet Sputnik 2.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydibFhTuimY

Space Transporter concept "BORAS" – Bolkow Raum Transporter. Bolkow Developments KG Two stage space transporter with horizontal take-off. First stage uses 8 high – pressure ejector rocket engines. Each engine has 248 kN thrust. Upper stage has 2 rocket engines and a payload of 3 t. Launcher mass...

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HOTOL: Britain’s Spaceplane by Dan Sharp Now available for pre-order here: HOTOL: Britain's Spaceplane Tempest Books ISBN: 9781911704294 Format: Hardback Pages: 424 The start of Space Shuttle operations in 1981 marked a new era in spaceflight – with the five orbiters launching numerous...

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...

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...