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  1. Triton

    LM-B/Space Tug

    Does anyone know any details concerning the Grumman Lunar Module-B/Space Tug that was part of the Integrated Man Space Flight Program? I have found information that says its diameter was 22 feet and other information that says it was 15 feet. Did earlier concepts of the space shuttle have a...
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  2. 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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    • cold war early 1970s eldo european launcher development organisation late 1960s nasa north american rockwell space age space race space shuttle space transportation system united states western europe
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  3. 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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  4. S

    Chemical Interorbital Shuttle

    I found this interesting image on nasaimages.org. The site give this information about it: In 1970, NASA initiated Phase A contracts to study alternate Space Shuttle designs in addition to the two-stage fully-reusable Space Shuttle system already under development. A number of alternate...
  5. flateric

    Bell Textron Air Cushion Landing System (ACLS) for space vehicles

    A study of air cushion landing systems for space shuttle vehicles Ryken, J. M. NASA (non Center Specific) Publication Date: Dec 1, 1970 http://hdl.handle.net/2060/19710003622 direct pdf link
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  6. 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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    • cold war moon nasa nuclear rockets space age space race space shuttle space transportation system united states
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  7. Skybolt

    MDC Shuttle proposal Phase A - new findings

    Well, I swear I didn't imagine to be able to complement (and slightly correct) Dennis Jenkins work on the Shuttle, but after having triple checked with all I have, it seems this is really a new finding. We are back in second half of 1969. A number of contractors are doing early definition...
  8. robunos

    US 80s TNMTS/AMLS studies aka Shuttle II

    the Advanced Manned Launch System, from NTRS, http://hdl.handle.net/2060/19920025000 cheers, Robin.
  9. P

    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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    • cold war early 1970s great britain hawker siddeley dynamics late 1960s mcdonnell douglas nasa space age space race space shuttle space transportation system united states
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  10. P

    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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  11. 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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    • 1970s 1980s cold war nasa space age space race space shuttle space transportation system united states united states air force
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