douglas aircraft company missile & space division

  1. M

    Douglas RITA (Reusable Interplanetary Transport Approach)

    Douglas Nuclear Space Ship Douglas 1960 nuclear powered spacecraft View: https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroFuturism/comments/48nbte/1960_douglas_aircraft_concept_for_a/ A Look Back…Recoverable Rocket Boosters - A Future That Never Was by Tony R. Landis Page: 8 - DOUGLAS NUCLEAR LAUNCH VEHICLE...
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    • douglas aircraft company douglas aircraft company missile & space division nuclear powered vehicles nuclear rockets space age space race united states
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    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  2. overscan (PaulMM)

    R G Smith - one of the greatest aviation artists of all time

    Mike Machat shows some of R G Smith's incredible artwork on his Youtube channel. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S4R4B3GxD4
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    • aerospace american society of aviation artists aviation art cold war douglas aircraft company douglas aircraft company missile & space division douglas missile & space division late 20th century mcdonnell douglas northrop post-cold war united states navy
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    • Forum: Found on the Internet
  3. donaldson1

    The PGM-17 Thor Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM)

    http://youtu.be/GvR2s-oS3h8
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    • cold war douglas aircraft company douglas aircraft company missile & space division great britain intermediate range ballistic missile irbm north atlantic treaty organisation nuclear battlefield raf bomber command royal air force strategic air command united states united states air force
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  4. Graham1973

    Pioneer Biosatellite (1968)

    While trying to locate a Douglas proposal to modify an S-IVb into an orbiting bioresearch lab I found this report on the possible use of the Pioneer VI-IX bus for a series of heliocentric orbiting BioSats. Feasibility study for conducting biological experiments aboard a Pioneer spacecraft...
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    • astrobiology cold war douglas aircraft company missile & space division nasa pioneer program space age space biology space race united states
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    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  5. RyanC

    Douglas Missile (DM) List

    Very sketchy and incomplete! DM-14 - Nike-Hercules DM-15 -- Nike Zeus A? (sketchy) DM-15S --NIKE-ZEUS ASAT DM-15X2 -- Nike-EX. On 1 JAN 1967, was redesignated SPARTAN. DM-18 -- Thor DM-18A -- Thor Agena A? DM-19 -- Thor Delta? DM-20 -- Skybolt DM-21 -- Thor Agena B?
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    • air defense command albm asat cold war douglas aircraft company douglas aircraft company missile & space division douglas missile & space division icbm irbm missiles and space systems division (douglas) nasa nuclear battlefield strategic air command surface-to-air missile united states air force
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    • Forum: Designation Systems
  6. Triton

    Nova launch vehicle (post-Saturn)

    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
    • Triton
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    • 1960s apollo program boeing cold war convair douglas aircraft company missile & space division general dynamics heavy lift vehicle martin marietta corporation nasa nasa marshall space flight center post-apollo space age space race united states united states air force
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    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  7. Triton

    Douglas Spacecraft Projects and Proposals 1961

    Douglas print ad from 1961 showing space vehicle concepts. URL: http://cgi.ebay.com/1961-DOUGLAS-Missiles-SPACE-SYSTEMS-Lunar-Vehicles-Ad-/310237049775?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0
    • Triton
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    • astronomical art cold war douglas douglas aircraft company douglas aircraft company missile & space division douglas missile & space division early 1960s missiles and space systems division (douglas) space age space art space race
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    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  8. Mercurius Cantabrigiensis

    Thor IRBM documentation

    Does anyone know of a good source of information on the Thor IRBM? There is a detailed official history of its contemporary, the Jupiter, on the internet, but I haven't found an equivalent for Thor. I'm trying to locate a good weight breakdown for the combat missile, and although there are...
    • Mercurius Cantabrigiensis
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    • cold war douglas aircraft company douglas aircraft company missile & space division intermediate range ballistic missile irbm nuclear battlefield strategic air command united states united states air force
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    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  9. Orionblamblam

    Douglas MARS Model 2235 aerospaceplane

    Manned Aerodynamic Reusable Spaceship. Presented by Douglas in 1962 for the Aerospaceplane (ASP) contest. Clearly, someone at Douglas had watched "When Worlds Collide" a few too many times. This was designed not as a true SSTO, but as a twin-ship formation... one carrying payload, the other...
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    • cold war douglas aircraft company douglas aircraft company missile & space division early 1960s nasa single-stage-to-orbit space age space plane space race spaceplane ssto united states united states air force
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    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  10. Triton

    S-IVB as reusable SSTO

    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...
    • Triton
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    • apollo program cold war douglas aircraft company douglas aircraft company missile & space division douglas missile & space division late 1960s nasa single-stage-to-orbit space age space race ssto united states
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    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  11. Michel Van

    Douglas ROMBUS

    Philip Bono master piece "Reusable Orbital Module-Booster & Utility Shuttle"from 1964 http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/rombus.htm is SSTO (VTOVL) with payload 450 tons in 185 km Orbit. with a plug nozzle rocket engine design, used also as heat shield during atmospheric reentry. most of LH2 fuel...
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    • cold war deep space probes douglas aircraft company douglas aircraft company missile & space division heavy lift vehicle mars moon moonbase nasa single-stage-to-orbit space age space race ssto
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    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  12. hesham

    Douglas Astro delta-wing spacecraft

    Hi, the Douglas Astro was delta-wing vehicle and spacecraft,it was combined aircraft and rocketry concepts. http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1963/1963%20-%201667.pdf
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    • air defense command astronomical art cold war douglas aircraft company douglas aircraft company missile & space division douglas missile & space division missiles and space systems division (douglas) nasa nuclear rockets space age space art space race united states united states air force
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    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  13. RP1

    Ding Dong Missile

    This atomic weapon is mentioned in Tony Buttlers' ASP: Fighers & Interceptors, as being one of the armament schemes for the Northrop N-144, amongst others. Is this, in fact, referring to Genie, or something else?
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    • air defense command cold war douglas aircraft company douglas aircraft company missile & space division nuclear battlefield tactical nuke united states air force
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    • Forum: Secret Missile, Bomb and Gun Projects
  14. flateric

    C-133 as a Saturn Carrier Aircraft

    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...
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    • apollo program cold war douglas aircraft company douglas aircraft company missile & space division jet age nasa nasa langley research center space age space race transport aircraft united states
    • Replies: 22
    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
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