space

Hi! There was one thread about early Vostok design, but the weren’t any drawings; so here are they. enjoy

https://tua.gov.tr/en In a major milestone, Turkey on Tuesday unveiled its ambitious 10-year space road map that includes missions to the moon, sending Turkish astronauts to a scientific mission in space and developing internationally viable satellite systems...

http://www.aiaa.org/pdf/conferences/Maita.pdf Heres a JAXA brief regarding future hypersonic and space launch projects.

Hi I attach a file with a non-technical summary of research done at the University of Florida on a gas/vapor core nuclear reactor with MHD conversion for space propulsion. A liquid cooled version with MHD propulsion for navy operations is also presented. If Generation IV reactors are 2...

Blue Origin is Jeff Bezos' space company currently developing a suborbital VTOL RLV called New Shephard. This vehicle is inspired by the DC-X, with some engineers from that programme now working for Blue Origin. The company is notoriously secretive about its plans and progress but information...

An article on pre-Shenzhou studies and the Shenzhou project. Check it out: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/launchpad/1921/story-7.htm You gotta love this illustration. Here you go. Moonbat