space race

  1. N

    Martin Marietta orbit-to-orbit spacecraft (1968)

    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...
  2. Flyaway

    Black Ops And The Shuttle

    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
  3. Flyaway

    Public Release of SIGINT Phase II Records

    More on link below including the declassified documents themselves. http://www.nro.gov/foia/declass/SIGINT_PhaseII.html
  4. P

    Soviet archival films: ekranoplans, lunar N1, Buran - Energia.

    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...
  5. Triton

    Grumman Horizontal Landing Logistics Spacecraft proposals

    Grumman Horizontal Landing Logistics Spacecraft proposals found on eBay. Source: http://www.ebay.com/itm/GRUMMAN-PROPOSALS-HORIZONTAL-LANDING-LOGISTICS-SPACECRAFT-REENTRY-VEHICLE-DESIGN-/132212492362?hash=item1ec87a884a:g:FUUAAOSwcB5ZMDzz
  6. Graham1973

    Ever wondered where those plastic spacemen on your birthday cake came from...?

    Just found an interesting time-waster of a site devoted to plastic spacemen toys, specifically the ones sold by Tri-ang in the early 70s under the SpaceX (UK) and Golden Astronaut (US) line http://www.triangspacextoys.info/index.html But where it gets really interesting is that at least one...
  7. Triton

    Lockheed "The Defender" SDI poster

    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:
  8. Flyaway

    Black ZEUS: The top secret shuttle mission that never flew

    Rest on the link. http://www.thespacereview.com/article/3160/1
  9. C

    Original US space program without the moon goal.

    Immagine that Richard Nixon instead of JFK was elected President of United States in November 1960,and that Alan Shepard was the first man in space (but not in orbit) in Febraury 1961. Two events that could happen. In this scenario,if President Nixon not consider necessary a manned mission on...
  10. hesham

    First Western publications on Energiya-Buran

    Hi, here is the Russian old shuttle heavy lift launch vehicle. http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1986/1986%20-%200900.html
  11. Graham1973

    Synchronous Earth Observation Satellite (SEOS) - 1973

    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...
  12. C

    Unknown Martin Spacecraft Concept

    I tried to figure out the appropriate topic to post this, but it crossed over a couple topics. I found this interesting Martin factory model from the estate of a Martin engineer located in Denver CO. The base is meant for a SV-5 model, but it fit. I picked up 5 other models, all were Martin...
  13. A

    Philip Bono, By Gemini to Mars, and more...

    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 -...
  14. G

    RIP Simon Ramo 1913-2016

    http://www.dailybreeze.com/obituaries/20160628/simon-ramo-1913-2016-aerospace-pioneer-and-icbm-chief-architect-was-the-r-in-trw
  15. Michel Van

    Cats in Zero G

    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
  16. Flyaway

    KH-11 KENNEN

    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...
  17. A

    British Secret Projects 5: Britain's Space Shuttle by Dan Sharp

    http://www.crecy.co.uk/british-secret-projects-5
  18. F

    1965 Gemini Video

    From a 1965 BBC "Man In Space" documentary featuring an extensive look inside the Gemini capsule. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqlrV_l25uw
  19. V

    Ehricke Space Lifeboat model

    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
  20. Grey Havoc

    Edgar Mitchell, last surviving member of Apollo 14 mission, passes away

    http://gizmodo.com/rip-apollo-14-astronaut-edgar-mitchell-the-sixth-man-t-1757382904 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35506000 http://edition.cnn.com/2016/02/05/us/edgar-mitchell-moon-astronaut-dies-obit-feat/index.html...
Back
Top Bottom