Production design from the MGM motion picture 2010: The Year We Make Contact by Syd Mead. The film, written and directed by Peter Hyams, is based on the novel 2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur C Clarke.
1). UR-700K
2). UR-700 with RO-31 nuclear rocket engine (250 t to LEO)
all images (c) NPOMash
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3). UR-700 compared to N1 and Saturn V
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Can anyone recommend a good English source for information concerning Valentin Glusko's Lunar Expeditionary Complex beyond the Russian Space Web site and Astronautix, either books or websites? Does anyone have concept art they would be willing to share? I have been on the Buran web site.
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I have read conflicting information concerning the Soviet N1 rocket. Some sources say that the 30 engine design of the first stage was fatally flawed and the complex piping was damaged during rail transport to Baikonur. But then another source says that Nikolai Kuznetsov continued to work to...
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Here is my personal contribution about this interesting, even if unrealized, project of mid-'80s.
It was essentially a Soyuz replacement with an enlarged reentry module (reusable through the exploitation of VKK Buran's TPS) and a small expendeable service module.
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...
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A thread for the Tupolev Tu-2000 aerospaceplane and also other VKS contenders.
The Tu-2000A (first two pictures) was to be a 70-90 tonnes demonstrator of the actual SSTO spacecraft.
The third pic shows a model that was displayed at the 1992 Mosaeroshow. I'm still not certain whether it's meant...
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