space race

Hi, http://archive.aviationweek.com/image/spread/19790305/20/2

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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...

Issue #01 of US Launch Vehicle Projects has just come out: http://www.aerospaceprojectsreview.com/blog/?p=2103 Pre-Saturn Phase III Vehicles: 1958 concept for clustered Atlas boosters Boeing “Big Onion”: an SSTO to launch SPS Northrop TAV: an in-flight propellant transfer spaceplane Martin...

Poster printed on cardboard featuring many space concepts by Dr. Werner von Braun and Krafft Ehricke circa 1959 found on eBay. Seller's description:

As ESA discuss European Manned Spaceflight was a battle between Hermes Shuttle and Capsule Fraction Here the 1989 Proposal of ERNO "LaReCa" short for Large Ariane 5 Return Capsule It feature: -A large reusable Capsule for various mission -The use of full potential of Ariane 5 rocket...

Requirements and capabilities for planetary missions. Volume 2: Mars polar orbiter penetrator 1981 http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19760014153.pdf For details on the penetrators planned to be used see the thread "Hughes/Sandia - Pioneer Mars Orbiter (1974)"...

Hi, the Janus was created by TRW Space Technology Laboratories,Redondo Beach,California in USA,and it was a manned orbital spacecraft with a delta wing stage as a re-entry vehicle. http://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/3.28224 Anyone wants this file,please send to me a private massage with...

http://www.myspacemuseum.com/sovspac1.htm ;) http://www.astronautix.com/craft/lk.htm

Vintage NASA film was produced in early 1970's and intended to paint a picture of NASA in 1985. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98pthkn9A6M#t=118

One of the more interesting results of the various NASA space engineering projects. Designed by a team from the University of Auburn, this Saturn V launched probe, which would have been launched sometime between 1975 -1980 had it been built. Upon arrival at Jupiter (After an 800-900 day trip...

As per this item today (10-Nov-2014), Gizmodo is starting a series of posts "showcasing the work of some of the most noted aerospace artists." They start today with Attila Héjja (Hejja): The Hungarian-Born Painter Who Immortalized America's Space Program by Atilla Nagy, Gizmodo - 10-Nov-2014 **...

Part and parcel of our then nuclear weapons program, many items of which were dual use and dependent on each other. Starting with GreenSat (a spy satellite now thinly veiled as an earth observation satellite), there is no point in having nuclear tipped MRBM/ICBM's without the necessary...

List all weapons of SDI ? - Braduskill - X-Ray Laser - NPB Neutral Particle Beam - SBL Space Based Laser - HVG HyperVelocity rail Gun - GBL Ground Based Laser - SBKKV Space Based Kinetic Kill Vehicle - BP Brilliant Pebbles

Sergey Pavlovich Nepobedimy (September 13, 1921 – April 11, 2014) was a Soviet designer of rocket weaponry. He was the Head and Chief Designer of the Kolomna Mechanical Engineering Design Bureau (1965-1989). Born in Ryazan, USSR, he graduated from Bauman Moscow State Technical University in...

Via Slashdot: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/15/us/jack-kinzler-skylabs-savior-dies-at-94.html Jack Kinzler in 1973 with a photo of the thermal shield he created for the Skylab station. Credit United Press International Godspeed.

What if in 1971-72 the Congress of United States had rejected the Space Shuttle program? Was realistic the end of all USA manned programs,or yet in 1969 this option was dismissed by Nixon for National prestige reasons? If we have no end of US manned presence in space,realistically which program...

What is exatly this? An alternative type of MMU for Skylab or Shuttle? Is in a lot of space publications of 70s. P.S- (A Apollo docking probe on the nose)?? :o