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  1. P

    SERV - 1971 VTOVL alternate shuttle proposal

    From the astonautix site http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/shuttle.htm VTOVL orbital launch vehicle. Status: Study 1971. Manufacturer's Designation: SERV. Chrysler ballistic single stage to orbit alternate shuttle proposal of June 1971. This was the most detailed design study ever performed on...
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  2. Triton

    North American Rockwell/General Dynamics Phase B Shuttle specs

    Does anyone have specifications of the North American Rockwell/General Dynamics Phase B Shuttle (1970)? Any additional concept art and drawings would be appreciated as well. http://web.archive.org/web/20070609091323/www.abo.fi/~mlindroo/SpaceLVs/Slides/sld029.htm
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  3. Triton

    Late 1960s Space Tug

    Anyone have information about the late 1960s space tug? This was supposed to launched into LEO by the space shuttle and then hitch a ride on the NERVA-powered nuclear shuttle?
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  4. Triton

    Space Shuttle Concepts

    Does anyone know anything about these space shuttle designs? The images come from the Altair VI blog site and the author mentioned something about the Solar Power Station. Was the Solar Power Station the idea of having solar cells in space and then microwaving down the electricity? Anyone know...
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  5. Michel Van

    To The Moon with .... the Space Shuttle ?!

    sounds insane, more like cheap "Sci-Fi" TV Movies of Germans Networks but like History shows, some one proposed that To NASA ! Cislunar Application of the Space Shuttle Orbiter Project V1086, J. E. Blahnik; undated (post-July 1971) attachment to memorandum from Director, Science and...
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  6. flateric

    AMSCI/ALSV - Air-launched mini shuttles from early 1980s

    I think that you remember these tiny stuff that Boeing, Rockwell and GD proposed to USAF under family of programs - "Air-Launched Sortie Vehicle", ALSV/“Advanced Military Spaceflight Capability Technology Identification”, AMSCI and so on. Don't you have higher-resolution scans of these...
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    Hawker Siddeley late 1960's STS?

    In Volume 59 Supplement 2, 2006 of BIS’s Space Chronicles – UK Spaceplanes, there is mention on Page 107 of a R. H Francis from Hawker Siddeley presenting a paper ‘believed to be in Virginia around the late 1960’s, where he showed a configuration identical to that of the US Space Shuttle...
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    Various US Reusable Launch Vehicles (RLV) Projects

    A very interesting site concerning the decisons that led to the STS being the way it is. http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4221/contents.htm
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  9. Antonio

    Space Shuttle Carrier Aircraft Projects

    Matej, the link to your web doesn't works for me (I have even tried from a Windows PC) :( So I add drawings courtesy from Lark
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