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...
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?
cold war
early 1970s
eldo
european launcher development organisation
late 1960s
nasa
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space age
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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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
cold war
early 1970s
great britain
hawker siddeley dynamics
late 1960s
mcdonnell douglas
nasa
space age
space race
space shuttle
spacetransportationsystem
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