apollo program

I was looking for information on the Lunar Surveying Staff, an instrument proposed for the first series of Apollo flights and stumbled across a report into the proposed lunar surveying instrumentation intended for the lunar flights carried out under Apollo Applications. What is of interest...

During the 1960's NASA looked at several possible improvements to the existing Block II Apollo's. One such study was by Bell and looked into a new design for RCS thrusters, which was theoretically scaleable from 5lb to 1000lb of thrust. Experimental auxiliary rocket engine, part I. Final report...

NASAs pre-Apollo program underwent a number of changes as the need to reach the moon before the Russians came to dominate the program. One concept, that was studied and not proceeded with was mounting a small (100lb) rover to a modified Surveyor. It was to be fitted with small scientific...

I've used the search function and this does not appear to have been covered before (fingers crossed) NASAs original surveyor plan involved four 'engineering' flights and two 'science' missions. As things worked out the original 'engineering' design proved adequate for pre-Apollo landing site...

Westinghouse Moon Shelter concept drawing circa 1965 found on eBay. URL: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Press-Photo-1965-Concept-Drawing-Moon-Shelter-Astronauts-Moon-Stay-/160738182426?pt=Art_Photo_Images&hash=item256cbe051a

During the 1960's one proposal for the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) was make it so that after the manned mission was over it could be used as an unmanned rover for further exploration. Here is the final presentation report for the Bendix Version...

Why USAF not consider to use Apollo hardware for MOL? The military-spy station could be launched by Saturn IB ,or more large, by Saturn V. A MOL-Skylab type of station would be the advantage to be reusable for more that one mission. Instead of Gemini-B,the crew could be on Apollo capsule (with...

Dear Boys and Girls; please don't ask as I really don't know. Here is a picture with a caption in French of the United Aircraft Corporation "project" (could even be a "concept") for a Lunar Cabin Vehicle that operates like a Pogo-Stick; designed by Dr. Howard S. Seifert...... The picture comes...

so Hollywood get Apollo Program in there claws after Michael "Armageddon" Bay, Transformer3 give Apollo 11 a treatment ::) http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/paramount/transformersdarkofthemoon/ comes now Apollo 18 Thriller ala Alien were a US Military lunar mission look at manned Soviet...

The first three spacecraft studied under NASA's Apollo program designation were proposals by Martin, General Electric and Convair Astronautics (General Dynamics) in partnership with Avco. Depicted here is the Convair Phase C lunar lander, in which the entire Apollo vehicle landed on the moon --...

Artist's depiction of a comparison of US launch vehicles including the Nova. Source: http://cgi.ebay.com/ORIGL-NASA-PHOTO-U-S-SPACE-VEHICLES-COMPARISON-/260653187154?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0

CSM Experiments Pallet Proposed modification of the Apollo Service Module to permit a variety of Earth/Lunar orbit experiments to be carried. One such experiment evolved into the Apollo Telescope Mount fitted to Skylab. In a more limited form, this modification saw light as the SIM bay on...

1963, like rightly Scott says on his blog (http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=2640 showing gorgeous COLOR graphics of early Martin post-Saturns), was a great year for space and future. But what we'd say of 1960 ? The companies were not only working with great plans for a rather far-off future, after...

Does anyone have a picture of Philip Bono the creator of ROMBUS, Pegasus, ICARUS, Ithacus, Selene, Deimos etc. who was employed at McDonnell-Douglas? My image searches seem to hit Salvatore Philip Bono aka "Sonny" Bono the late Congressman and former husband of Cher and the television program...

Hi everybody A sun-mirror to light up a battlefield ! http://www.orbiterwiki.org/wiki/Project_Apollo_for_Orbiter http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19790076663_1979076663.pdf http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19790076664_1979076664.pdf Many greetings

In case you asked yourself what the hell was the GD/Astro Apollo proposal, it is the Design IV in the drawing. Design III is Martin's. BTW, anyone interested in highly detailed early Apollo proposals drawings ?

Just after President Kennedy May 1961 call for a lunar landing before the end of the decade, there was a lot of proposals for boosters capable to take a manned lander to the Moon: ever growing Saturns, and Novas built with the most diverse combination of stages, liquid, solid and nuclear. One of...

Until now I personally knew of work done by Boeing in the early '60s for post-Saturn boosters only via a short hint in the fundamental "Nova and beyond" by Prof. Koelle. Found this on NTRS, it's fourth volume of a study on solid first stage Nova-class boosters done in 1963. First volume...

http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4221/ch4.htm One alternative, at $3.5 billion per year, eliminated NERVA and stopped production of Saturn V and Apollo spacecraft. This option, however, would maintain a vigorous program in piloted flight, featuring Skylab with three visits as well as six additional...

1964 study of C-133 as Saturn S-I and S-IV stages carrier aircraft LOW-SPEED CHARACTERISTICS OF A 1/2O-SCALE FOUR-ENGINE TRANSPORT MODEL WITH LARGE BODIES MOUNTED ABOVE THE FUSELAGE by Vernurd E . Lockwood Langley Reseurch Center Lungley Stution, Humpton, Vu, March 1964 Full paper...