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    1963 Grumman LEM

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    Disney-von Braun XR-1 spaceplane

    Disney-von Braun XR-1 spaceplane
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    von Braun retriever rocket

    von Braun retriever rocket
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    TWA Moonliner

    TWA Moonliner
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    Space Board Game Liftoff! 2.0

    Hi I really love this web site it has so much fantastic info on the hidden or forgotten space projects. Sadly, I don’t visit this website enough due to my projects. In 1989 I had my old boardgame Liftoff! Race to the Moon published; a simulation for four players with alternate proposed ways of...
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    USA ASAT merging Sparrow and Polaris

    In the document below, at page 23 there is the following sentence: "During the early 1960s, the U.S. Navy was also researching possible ASAT capabilities. Early efforts focused on matching a Navy Sparrow anti-aircraft missile with a Polaris Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM) but these...
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    JPL "spare" planetary program, in the 70's.

    As said in the title... all the robotic planetary missions launched in the 70's left a spare spacecraft on the ground (and later, at the NASM aerospace museum). There were good reasons for that - providing spares - ground testing - backup in case of failures (Mariner 8...) Soooo ...by 1978...
  8. A Tentative Fleet Plan

    Air Staff Target 9003 Photo-Reconaissance Satellite (Early 1960s)

    Source: Norman Friedman's Seapower and Space p365-366. AST.9003 envisaged satellites orbiting at 200 miles in 97 degree (sun-synchronous) orbits carrying two cameras with television readout, and an ELINT Antenna. Resolution of the cameras would be 25 and 5 yards with swath widths of 45 and 7...
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    The Right Stuff (TV series 2020)

    The Right Stuff is an upcoming American drama television series, which is based on the 1979 book of the same name by Tom Wolfe. It is set to premiere at the streaming service Disney+ on October 9th, 2020. First trailer: View: https://youtu.be/Og0htvEVqJQ This series might be good.:) But the...
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    X-15 ejection seat

    I need help I have been unable to find any pictures of the rear view of the X-15 ejection seat cane anyone help with this? thanks
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    Boeing & North American Rockwell "Windjammer"SSTO

    The other day I was looking at some space proposals from the past and I stumbled upon this beautiful SSTO. I have only been able to find one source that gave some details about it and I'm very much hoping that you guys can help get more details/drawings on this proposal. "The ”Windjammer”...
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    • 1970s boeing hthl nasa north american rockwell proposal space plane space race ssto united states united states air force windjammer
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    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  12. Flyaway

    Hubble Space Telescope

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    • 1980s 20th century 21st century cold war nasa post-cold war space race united states
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    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  13. Flyaway

    The Black Arrow & Britain’s Rocket Program

    Another of Scott Manley’s historical documentary videos:
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    The story of the docking of Soyuz 4 & 5

    Another interesting historical video from Scott Manley:
    • Flyaway
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    • cccp cold war cosmonauts soviet union space race ussr
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    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  15. Grey Havoc

    An alternative to Soylent Green?

    ;) https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51019798
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  16. Rhinocrates

    For All Mankind - Apple TV Series

    Apple has released the first three episodes of For All Mankind, an alternate history TV series. Ron Moore, of Battlestar Galactica, is running it. The premise is that the Soviets were lucky with the N-1 and the first man on the moon was Alexei Leonov. As a result, the space race continues...
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    • alternate history cold war science fiction space race
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    • Forum: The Bar
  17. Flyaway

    Viking mission to Mars

    Yep George Levin has stirred this up again with a new opinion piece in Scientific American. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/im-convinced-we-found-evidence-of-life-on-mars-in-the-1970s/ Here’s a support article...
  18. Arjen

    Alexei Leonov has passed away

    First man to spacewalk, one of the five on the Soyuz-Apollo flight.
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    • cccp cold war soviet union space race ussr
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    • Forum: Aviation & Space
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    Space 1975 Could Von Braun's vision have worked

    Just been leafing through a copy of an old Brooke Bond card album about spaceflight which ends with various NASA projects planned before Nixon went for a leaner option I also have Stephen Baxter's novel VOYAGE about a US manned mission to Mars in the 80s. To get the Von Braun vision to work...
  20. Flyaway

    Mars Sample Return

    https://spacenews.com/mars-sample-return-mission-plans-begin-to-take-shape/
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    • cccp cold war cybernetics early 21st century european space agency late 20th century nasa post-cold war robotics space race
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    • Forum: Aviation & Space
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