Cutaway Truax X-3 "Volksrocket/Enterprise". The X-3 Enterprise rocket was a creation of Robert Truax, project “X-3” initially baptized “Volksrocket”, a rocket that would bring the citizen to the dream of space exploration, for which with his rocket experience he allowed him to conceive a ship that would be powered by LR101 rockets a reliable engine used in Atlas missiles which would be acquired at a price of 110, or $ 70 instead of 70,000, or $ the unit when they were installed in Atlas ballistic missiles, one of the The advantages of the LR101 were to be very simple, reusable and not require the complexities of liquid fuel rockets such as turbo-pumps, while those only use a spherical tank with pressurized helium that propel the fuel (Kerosene Jet A1 ) and the oxidant (oxygen) carrying sufficient quantities for a flight of between 10 and 15 minutes, a short and expensive adventure of more or less 1000, oo / minute about (10,000, oo the ticket) to observing the curvature of the earth from 34 thousand meters or 113 thousand feet high, the aspiring astronaut would occupy a tiny capsule of only 25 inches or 63.5 cm in diameter that would descend by parachute once the flight was completed. Its designer attracted interest and then the support of a promoter John Oelerich of Chicago who tried to attract 38 investors for a modest capital investment only required between $ 150/200 thousand to give the necessary momentum of that project. Truax worked for many years in trying to make his project viable, he died in 2010 at age 93.
Recreating this attempt to bring astronautics closer to the man on foot has always been a difficult undertaking almost a chimera, an example would be the "G's" forces of acceleration during the launch by the position of the pilot sitting vertically that would affect his spine ( something that has caused injuries to the ejections of many pilots) the absence of any type of control by the crew and blindly rely on parachute deployment when returning to land.
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Motocar work is a highly speculative free interpretation of that Robert Truax project and whose feasibility was very real, I remember reading that article in the Popular Mechanics magazine in the Spanish edition of May / June 1981 and thinking that it was a version of the V-2 missile "Manned" a few years ago I stumbled upon the article now in English and with the help of the Internet I expanded the data as far as it could go and decided to make the cutaway as a modest contribution to Robert Truax's dream that later The great designer Burt Rutan and his successful SpaceShip One would follow with better results, which gave way to the only space tourism vehicle the SpaceShip Two of the Virgin Galactic company of Sir Richard Branson, of which a large number of aspirant tickets have already been sold to “Tourists Space ”awaiting the completion of test flights.
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Original cutaway del Truax X-3 Enterprise
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