This is an orbit-to-orbit design spacecraft from the Martin Marietta corporation. I found it in a book Man's Conquest of Space by the National Geographic Society (1968). Now you know as much as I do.
Does anybody know if this was an actual study or just something slapped together by the MM...
http://thespacereview.com/article/3390/1
Black ops and the shuttle (part 3-1): Recovering spent HEXAGON reconnaissance satellites with the space shuttle
by Dwayne A. Day
Monday, December 11, 2017
1980s
cold war
national reconnaissance office
space age
spaceracespace shuttle
space transportation system
space weapons
spy sat
strategic defense initiative
strategic reconnaissance
united states air force
All these videos on Russian resources You Tube.
The monster of the Caspian Sea. Leningrad. 1990. The whole story of Alekseev's ekranoplanes: from the prototypes of 1962 to the Orlionok.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2Vjuk12XAk
Ekranoplan - amphibian Bartini. 1970...
pavel
Thread
cccp
cold war
red fleet
soviet moon program
soviet strategic rocket forces
soviet union
spacerace
ussr
Lockheed "The Defender" SDI poster found on eBay.
Source:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Star-Wars-Lockheed-Poster-Killer-Satellites-Louis-De-Latorre-Original-/282065438198?hash=item41ac6905f6:g:W5IAAOSwzJ5XUv0a
Seller's description:
1980s
cold war
late 1970s
nasa
national reconnaissance office
space age
spaceracespace shuttle
space transportation system
spy sat
strategic reconnaissance
united states air force
Early 1970s design for a Synchronous Earth Observation Satellite (SEOS) that bears a surprising resemblance to Hubble, it just points in the other direction. The intention was to provide improved coverage of mesoscale weather phenomena like tornadoes, ground fogs, clear air turbulence and other...
I've added a new article on Philip Bono's work on the Encyclopedia Astronautica at:
http://www.astronautix.com/b/bono.html
You may notice I've reorganized and reformatted the site, and am now (after some time) begun adding new and updated content. So please visit regularly to see what is new -...
This Soviet video show experiment with Cats in "Vomit Comet" kind aircraft
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CLB1pE6w3U
it's interesting to see how the cat adapt to situation
New article from AW, including an image captioned 'This accurate model show the original KH-11 design that, like Hubble, carried about a 8-ft. mirror but with a shorter instrument base section.' Just looks like an image of Hubble to me & it would be a first for an image of it to be reproduced of...
Hi, here is my card model by Arnold Ehricke dubbed "Space Lifeboat"
http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/models/Aircraft/Space-Lifeboat.html
Mayby for some one it will be interesting!
P.S. many thanks for Justo Miranda! http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=3531.0
Published on Sep 27, 2012
High Frontier was a private company that promoted space-based strategic defense against nuclear ICBMs. It was founded by Daniel O. Graham, a retired lieutenant general in the U.S. Army who is often called the "father of SDI". This film promotes Graham's initiative: a...
who knows Paul Drye blog False Steps: The Space Race as It Might Have Been
He has produce a Ebook with 366 Pages about space programs that never were
and for good price of 1.99 euro or US$1.99. for all systems
more here
https://falsesteps.wordpress.com
Discovered this today..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaIS-tY57Zg
Chris Staples "Dark Side of the Moon"..
First, its not the Pink Floyd song, so don't be surprised. Second, great set decoration making the ultimate late 60's apartment. Third, I'm curious about the clip at 3:15 showing the...
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