Secret Space Projects

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Unbuilt and cancelled rocket and spacecraft projects. Not for current or historic produced designs.
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BAe HOTOL
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The Black Arrow & Britain’s Rocket Program
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Pre-Buran, OK-92 (Orbitalny Korabl', Orbital Craft)
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Junkers Raumtransporters (Junkers space projects)
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Skyrocket Aerospace
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Lockheed California RAPT two stage to orbit system of 1966
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Weaponization of orbital vehicles
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Japan launches the smallest rocket to ever carry a satellite to orbit
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New agreement enables U.S. launches from Australian spaceports
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Sänger II aerospaceplane project
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George L. von Pragenau Shuttle patents
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British 1960 manned Lunar Project
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Interorbital Systems launch vehicles
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Albatros space transportation system proposal (1982)
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India Future Manned Space projects
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Molniya Satellites - Scott Manley
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USAF/NASA RLV programs from the past - AMSCI, Science Dawn, Have Region, etc
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US 80s TNMTS/AMLS studies aka Shuttle II
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Japanese Shuttle, Space Plane & other Projects
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Viking mission to Mars
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Von Braun's Ferry Rocket of 1952
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Boeing & North American Rockwell "Windjammer"SSTO
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Viking 4 - Mars Surface Sample Return
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Space Sensor Layer
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Earth-to-Orbit SSTO RLV projects (Martin VTO & Boeing HTO)
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Strange vehicle and Saturn-IB derived station.
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Orbital Glide Vehicle & Supersonic Carrier
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Lockheed 1960s Astrocommuter
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Where could we launch Orion? Hypothetical launch sites for Nuclear Pulse Propulsion Spacecraft.
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Douglas Astro delta-wing spacecraft
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British Old Space Launcher
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Russian 2030 moonbase and Luna 25 lander
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Could Starlite have saved the Shuttle?
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unknown Atlas rocket versions
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Candidate Space Shuttle Orbiters Wind Tunnel Studies 1969 NASA Langley Research
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DC-X Delta Clipper
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Identify a 1960s very large launcher project by the Aerospace Corporation
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AAP Manned Single-Launch Venus Fly-by Mission (1967)
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BAC Multi-Unit Space Transport and Recovery Device (MUSTARD)
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AMSCI/ALSV - Air-launched mini shuttles from early 1980s
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Russia's MRKS Reusable Space Launcher
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Dornier Do 122 High-Altitude Sounding Rocket (Project 621)
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Aerospatiale Reusable Launcher Concepts
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Buccaneers of the high frontier: Program 989 SIGINT satellites from the ABM hunt to the Falklands War to the space shuttle
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High Frontier (SDI)
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"Faked" SDI test from the 1980s
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Soviet N1 rocket
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Ariane 5 Prototypes evolution 1977 to 1985
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Martin AR-14B
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USA military lunar outpost: Project Horizon, LUNEX ...
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less-known Titan variants
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Jupiter Orbiting Vehicle for Exploration (JOVE) - 1967
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SpaceX Falcon Heavy
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Aerospatiale STS-2000
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SBIRS
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Polyus
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US planned to nuke the moon
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Zenith Star
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Skylab
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Chinese 863-706 project, an H-6 launched MSP?
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Gemini Applications
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British Manned Spacecraft
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X-23 PRIME at NMUSAF
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ABIR - The first satellite of Israel (Rafael proposal)
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Black Horse
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Re: The Fully Reusable Access to Space Technology (FAST) Program
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Janus Manned Orbital Spacecraft with Stage Re-Entry
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Orbiter Hilton
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Shuttle-launched MRRV (Maneuvering Re-entry Research Vehicle)
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ESA European Heavy Lift Launcher “PROTEIN”
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NASA Mars Unmanned Aircraft
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NASA HL-20 lifting body
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Japanese NAL hypersonic spaceplane
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Latest Angara family iterations at MAKS 2007
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Krafft Ehricke Space designs
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The McDonnell Douglas Model 176 developments
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Virgin Orbit - Cornwall Spaceport
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V.2 based Tsien Hsue-shen 'transport rocket'
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Defense Support Program (DSP)
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Aerojet-General Sea Dragon
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Inflatable space habitats
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DARPA Blackjack
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French-Brazilian BR-1 and BR-2 Launchers
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ID this Spacecraft Vehicle
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Rods from God / "Project Thor"
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Teng Yun -- China (CASIC) TSTO Space Shuttle project
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SDI Brilliant Pebbles
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FALCON CAV (Common Aero Vehicle) competitors
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Spaced-Based Defense Question / Nikola Tesla
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Manned anti-Satellite systems ("space fighters")
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NASA’s Plan to Rescue Stranded Astronauts -Playing Sardines in A Space Capsule
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Lockheed Martin X-33 & Venture Star
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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
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First Western publications on Energiya-Buran
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Apollo LM-derived projects
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Commercial Space Station
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Indian near future developments
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Martin EGRESS
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Laser Battle Station Model Kit Inspiration
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Chelomey / NPO Mashinostroyeniya LKS
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